Just giving the Brits the finger.
conducting exercises such as assisting a vessel in distress
I bet they do that a lot ,LOL
If true...Putin needs a wheelbarrow to carry around his “Junk”...
Sending some marines to pick up the ship the Russians bought from the Frogs?
Just wait until he does the same thing in the Chesapeake Bay inlet...
The Russian Armada.
Aren’t these territorial waters of the UK and France
The Baie de la Seine is rather large bay, about 100km by 50km. Putin's rather puny fleet hardly fills up, and comes up inadequately short in, such a large inlet.
Perhaps if he takes his shirt off and mans the helm he could make it seem larger.
An accomishment that the Kreigsmarine would be salivating over.
It’s 20.6 miles wide at Dover. Its greatest width is 150 miles.
And there’s certainly a Brit SSN or two (probably a USN one too) stalking them with constantly updated firing solutions and warshots in the tubes.
And the Russians have no idea they’re there.
A whole 250 Russian marines?
Dont let them dock, they’ll be drunk and passed out in some pub within a few hours
I don’t think that Putin is very happy with oil prices today and he is letting the West know.
Makes sense, their northern ports are probably frozen solid. Maybe they’re searching for warm waters.
Russian ELINT activities ... doing the dreill in the Channel is a dead give away ...
The Russkies are very afraid that their ships might capsize in the rough seas of the North Sea, during a bad storm that is going on right. So they are waiting out the bad weather. You know the russian ships have a problem to much water in them they will sink.
Next stop: a visit to Francois Hollande!
And when did the English Channel become "international waters?"
Where’s the tugboat to tow them home if they break down?
Their much-ballyhooed “deployment” to Venezuela a couple years back (nuclear battle cruiser and a destroyer), and the few near-home forays of their 1 “aviation cruiser” Kuznetsov, always have one in company, since they are such pieces of junk.
As someone said, would imagine a couple of Her Majesty’s Perisher graduates are keeping an eye on things.