Russia reinforces her troops in Crimea

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

After the reunification of Crimea with Russia, Moscow deployed Bastion coast missile systems in the peninsula. Bastion is equipped with the Onyx supersonic missile that has a killing range of 300 kilometers.

In addition, Russia’s Black Sea fleet adopted new antisubmarine and guided-missile ships as well as four submarines of 2011-2015 vintage, among others.

Overall, the Russian Federation has concentrated troops 20,000 strong, 40 warships and 50 aircraft in the Black Sea region, which can strike a crushing blow at the next invasion from the West since 1941 (read: Nazi Germany). Despite the assurances given by George Bush I and other American presidents, Russia’s periphery states have been drawn towards the faulty NATO.

The West collaborated with Ukrainian neo-Nazis and staged a coup to oust a democratically elected government, pushing this country into chaos and a civil war in the Donbas region with large Russian populations. After the West-sponsored neo-Nazi coup in Kiev, Russia does not have any trust in the West and particularly the United States.

Observers say today it is like a showdown in old western. Russia on the one side, the aggressive NATO on the other. Each in the street, facing off, waiting for the other to blink an eye or draw his gun.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin once put it, Moscow has nonstandard solutions up her sleeve and no one will succeed in winning military superiority over Russia.

Currently, Russian specialists are developing a digital control system for guiding nuclear weapons that would enable on-line retargeting of a missile after its launch. The new system is designed for the latest nuclear missiles Topol-M and Yars-M whose flight range allows them to deliver nuclear munitions to the American evil empire.

The latest numbers show that the share of new weapons in strategic nuclear forces, the Air Force and the Navy accounts for about 55%, 35% and more than 50% respectively in Russia. The renewal of fighting equipment in Russian ground forces has made up some 70%. Recently, the Russian government has adopted a program for the purchases of arms in the amount of 19 trillion rubles for the period ending in 2020.