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MOSCOW, Feb. 14 (RIA Novosti). The Russian Defense Ministry commented on the information of the British media about the "dangerous rapprochement" of the Russian cargo ship Kyzyl-60 with the vessel of the Royal Navy HMS Enterprise in the waters of the Black Sea.

The chief of the information department of the press service of the Southern Military District for the Black Sea Fleet, Captain First Rank Vyacheslav Truhachev said that these data do not correspond to reality.

He said that the auxiliary vessel "Kyzyl-60", which came from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, and the British Navy ship Enterprise, "dispersed in regular mode at the oncoming courses" at a distance of about one cable (about 180 meters) in the central part of the Bosphorus Strait . The captain called this rapprochement on this site "an absolute norm for all participants in shipping".

Trukhachev added that "there were no dangerous maneuvers connected with the crossing of counter-rates" Kyzyl-60 "and" Enterprise ".

"Dangerous convergence"

"The ship of the Royal Navy swam in a few meters from the Russian ship during a demonstration of force within the framework of the NATO mission.The British ship seems to have barely escaped danger," reads the Daily Star article.

At the same time, in the photographs published on Twitter, it is evident that the distance between the ships was much more than "a few meters". In addition, it is obvious that the Russian warship did not threaten the British warship.

HMS Enterprise took part in the exercises in the Black Sea in order to "strengthen NATO's ability to defend national sovereignty through collective defense," Daily Star writes.

Escort of Russian ships

This is not the first time when Russian courts are worried about the British side. So, in January the British Navy watchdog Westminster was sent to the English Channel to escort a group of Russian warships.

As told in the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom, this happened after Russian ships entered the "national interests zone" of the country.

At the same time, the agency noted that what is happening can not be called an incident, and sending a ship for escorts is a routine procedure in such cases.

In addition, at the end of December, the British naval vessel Tyne was sent to escort a Russian liner in the English Channel, which, in the opinion of the British side, could collect intelligence information. Two days later the British frigate St. Albans accompanied the Russian ship "Admiral Gorshkov" when he was near British territorial waters in the North Sea. Then the Secretary of Defense of the United Kingdom, Gavin Williamson, stated that "he will not hesitate to defend the British waters and will not tolerate any form of aggression."

At the same time, Russia has repeatedly stressed that all the ships of the country move in strict accordance with international rules and do not violate the borders of other states.

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