Not 24 hours after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned that
a pre-emptive strike (by the USZ and/or Israhell) would violate
international law, Moscow put muscle into his warning: Tuesday, April 3,
the Russian guided missile destroyer Smetliviy arrived in the Syrian
port of Tartus from its Black Sea base for a naval exercise. The
warship’s support group is on the way. DEBKAfile’s
military sources report that the Russian flotilla carried a threefold message for Washington:
- The Russian-Iranian strategy of propping up the Assad regime which
has brought the Syrian ruler close to victory over his foes, will
continue: Diplomacy will be propelled by military impetus.
- Russia is providing the Assad regime with defense systems capable of repelling foreign military intervention.
- Consigning the Smetliviy warship to Syria illustrates Moscow’s new
rapid response policy: Russia is launching a naval exercise in the
eastern Mediterranean to match the “Noble Dina” air and naval maneuver
the USZ, Israhell and Greece are conducting across a broad expanse of sea
between Crete and the Israhelli bases at Haifa and Ashdod.
Israhelli warships and air force jets may therefore find themselves not
just operating alongside USZ naval and aircraft but confronted suddenly
by one of the largest destroyers in the Russian fleet (
NATO-coded ASW-submarine warfare), whose decks are the launching base for anti-air, anti-ship and anti-submarine missiles. The Smetliviy’s support group, believed to be a supply vessel and a
submarine, passed through the Bosporus Saturday, March 31 on their way
to Tartus. Monday, April 2, DEBKAfile reported: Russia and Iran set to counter
USZ/Israhelli strike against Iran. USZ-led Mediterranean naval drill.
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