Turkish state television showed some images of a technician armed with a rocket launcher on a Russian navy ship during the passage of the Bosphorus Strait. The episode happened a few hours ago. The technician was filmed on the deck of the class amphibious assault ship Ropucha "Caesar Kunikov".
It was a provocation - commented by the Turkish Foreign Ministry - that rocket launcher determines a threatening situation, we will give the answer that such an act deserves.
The Bosphorus, which splits Istanbul in two, offers the only passage for the oceans of the whole world for the Russian Black Sea fleet. According to the treaties signed, Turkey must allow the passage to all ships in time of peace.
Since the downing of the Russian Su-24, Moscow has introduced economic sanctions against Turkey for a value of 1 billion dollars. It should be noted that yesterday's episode is clearly a provocation. There Caesar Kunikov, in fact, it has four ramps for surface-to-air “Strela-3” missiles, extremely effective at medium-low altitudes.
What happened on the Bosphorus, it was only propaganda to motivate the positions of both countries.
