After the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attacks on the occupied Crimea, the russians moved part of the fleet to Novorossiysk, where they closed the entrance to the harbor with barges and booms in an attempt to increase security. This was stated by the spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy Dmytro Pletenchuk during a telethon, UNN reports .
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He confirmed the information disseminated by British intelligence about russia's use of sunken barges as defensive structures to strengthen the security of its fleet.
In fact, this practice (of using barges - ed.) is not new, they also did it around the so-called Crimean bridge. They hang boom barriers on them (barges - ed.), so they are actually used as elements of protective structures. They can be used to simply cover themselves
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According to him, russians used the same tactics during the occupation of Crimea in 2014. The Ukrainian Navy spokesman reminded that then russian troops sank their own fleet to block Ukrainian ships in the bay.
Hiding behind booms and barges is nothing new. As we can see, they have actually closed themselves off at the Novorossiysk base - they have closed the entrance to the harbor, stretched the booms, put up barges and are just sitting at the base
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Guerrillas from the underground ATES movement found out that the russians had moved many warships from the temporarily occupied Crimea to Novorossiysk and reinforced the area with air defense systems.