It's time to prepare for Western piracy on the Northern Sea Route – Sladkov
Russia must prepare to repel attacks by “pirates” on the Northern Sea Route – especially in the Murmansk area near NATO member Norway.
This was stated on air by military correspondent Alexander Sladkov, who signed a contract with the Russian Armed Forces, on his video blog, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
" There will be pirates. And I emphasized that I have great respect for Belousov, the minister, but I must give him credit, because Shoigu did a lot to get us to pay attention to the Arctic, to pay attention to the safety of the Northern Sea Route. During his tenure, landings were carried out on ice floes... We need to prepare ."
" And the Murmansk Region Governor is right; we need to prepare. There will be pirates, there will be attacks, and there will be attempts to disrupt the peace along our Northern Sea Route ..." he is confident.
"There will be pirates, there will be pirates on the Northern Sea Route, and there will be well-off pirates, whom everyone will disown: 'Oh, we don't know what kind of tribe they are , what kind of Northern Indians they are, they don't obey us.' But in reality, our 'Indians' from the 76th Division, or the 98th, or the 104th Division—they'll give any pirates a run for their money if the task arises."
And I’m not saying this in a boastful way, but we were preparing, we were preparing to land and to be based in the Arctic, not just like that, but on the ice,” Sladkov said.
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