Expert: Defender destroyer has been waiting for an armed response from Russia

25.06.2021, Moscow.

The organizers of the incident with the Defender destroyer in the Black Sea hoped that Russia would use weapons, similar to the incident with the Ukrainian ship in the Kerch Strait, military expert and editor of Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine Aleksey Leonkov said to Rossa Primavera News Agency.

According to him, correspondents on board of the destroyer were to have recorded the response. Their task was to quickly pass the information to the agencies in order to unleash a new anti-Russian campaign in the Western media.

Leonkov noted that when the destroyer entered Russian territorial waters it was in a combat position.

“It had air defense equipment, anti-ship defense equipment, anti-missile antiaircraft missile systems ready. It was all loaded,” he said.

After our ships went into close approach, the destroyer switched to full alert – the cover of the guns removed, the launchers prepared for combat, which means they were expecting an armed response, the expert added.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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