Ye Kai thought that the matter this time was not big, but he was wrong.
Although the conflict in the Black Sea Fleet was over a small matter of dividing a house, it caused a lot of noise.
Although Admiral Meillo promptly restrained the Russian officers and soldiers and maintained a restrained attitude, this matter was still spread through some thoughtful people.
That night, relevant reports began to appear in Russian domestic media. One newspaper even published an article titled "Ukrainian nationalists occupied a residential building belonging to the Russian army." The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also issued a diplomatic protest, and then Russia cut off contact with the Russian army.
Ukrainian gas supplies.
As conflicts become public, a new round of conflicts is also brewing.
Two days later, the largest conflict broke out in Odessa (located on the Black Gulf coast in southern Ukraine), which almost affected the fate of the Black Sea Fleet.
At that time, a large celebration was being held in Odessa. On the night of June 10, the Ukrainian deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet suddenly received a call from Odessa, claiming that a warship belonging to the Black Sea Fleet was in the Odessa military port.
, after stealing the radar facilities in the port, he attempted to leave the port without authorization.
The reported warship is an auxiliary ship of the Black Sea Fleet. When it was docked in Odessa, it dismantled the radar navigation system in the port without the permission of the Odessa city government in Ukraine, and moved it and hid it in the cabin.
Inside.
After receiving the news, the Ukrainian deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet immediately reported it to the Ministry of Defense in Kiev.
Soon, senior officials of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense issued an order to strictly prohibit all ships anchored in the port of Odessa from going to sea.
On the day the order was issued, the Odessa authorities dispatched a large number of border guards and marines to blockade the port, and posted additional guards beside the cables of all ships to strictly prohibit ships from leaving the port without authorization.
When customs officers, Odessa naval base officials and accompanying Ukrainian marines boarded the warship, the ship's crew attempted to use automatic rifles to hijack the boarding personnel, but were quickly stopped.
The actions of Russian sailors on the warship angered the Ukrainian authorities.
The Odessa authorities received an order from Kiev to conduct a boarding inspection of the ship the next morning.
Of course, Ukraine’s request for forced boarding and inspection was not a deliberate attempt to embarrass the other party, but because the Ukrainian intelligence department obtained an ulterior secret at that time: It turned out that the main commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Command had been engaged in illegal business.
activities, they used some warships and other auxiliary ships under their jurisdiction to carry out smuggling activities into Ukraine. Full text without advertisements
In particular, Rear Admiral Peter Svenkov, then the director of the Office of the Black Sea Fleet Command, colluded with officers from the Black Sea Fleet's logistics department and hydrographic survey department to carry out smuggling activities, and the Ukrainian intelligence agency has also conducted relevant investigations into these smuggling crimes.
for a long time.
Since the Black Sea Fleet will not be inspected by any party within the Black Sea, it also brings convenience to smuggling activities. When the Black Sea Fleet ships leave the port, they immediately fly the naval flag of the former Soviet Union, because the former Soviet Union no longer exists, so
They acquired extraterritorial status.
The ship they used for smuggling often traveled between Bulgaria and Ukraine. According to information obtained by the Ukrainian intelligence department, the ship was not only loaded with navigation radar equipment dismantled from the port of Odessa, but also a large amount of smuggled equipment smuggled from Bulgaria.
Sugar is being prepared for dumping in Ukraine.
The detention of the Black Sea Fleet ships by the Ukrainian authorities has caused great panic among the top brass of the Black Sea Fleet. Once this matter is leaked, it will affect the careers of these generals. Therefore, the admirals of the Black Sea Fleet, Commander of the Black Sea Fleet May
Under the control of Admiral Lowe, he took extremely risky actions to counter the Ukrainian authorities.
That night, they immediately ordered the 7th Battalion of the Ukrainian Marine Corps stationed in Odessa to rescue the trapped ship at all costs and help it quickly leave Odessa.
The military commander and many soldiers of the 7th Battalion are ethnic Russians. Although they serve Ukraine on the surface, they are actually more inclined to Moscow, especially with the high-level officials of the Black Sea Fleet.
At 11:40 that night, the commander of the 7th Battalion led his troops to the port and quickly occupied the trapped warship.
The generals of the Black Sea Fleet ordered them to kill anyone who tried to prevent the warship from leaving the port.
The Ukrainian guards had been disarmed by the officers and soldiers of the 7th Battalion. The sailors on the warship used axes to cut the cables on the shore and prepared to sail out of the port of Odessa.
The Ukrainian Navy subsequently dispatched combat ships to attempt to intercept them, but failed.
At 6 a.m. on June 11, in order to pursue the escaped ship, the Ukrainian Navy dispatched coastal border speedboats and four Su-15 interceptors. The generals of the Black Sea Fleet who learned the news could not sit still.
, a powerful fleet strike group was hurriedly dispatched to Odessa to rescue the warship.
The armed conflict was about to break out. In order to ease the situation, Kiev made concessions.
Kiev issued an order to inspect the ship as soon as it arrived at the port of Sevastopol.
But when the ship arrived in Sevastopol, the Marine Corps of the Black Sea Fleet, which had been waiting at the port, immediately protected the ship and did not allow anyone to board it.
The Ukrainian judicial department requested the Black Sea Fleet to board the ship for inspection, but it took a long time to get approval from the Black Sea Fleet. As expected by the Ukrainian judicial department, the judicial inspectors saw only an empty cabin.
Although this incident did not produce any results, it caused a serious impact within the Black Sea Fleet.
The Ukrainian deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet can probably control about 20% of the fleet. He planned to use these resources to gain some benefits from the Black Sea Fleet, and then use it to ascend the throne of the Ukrainian Navy Commander, but something happened
After this incident, he felt that the Black Sea Fleet needed to be divided as soon as possible, otherwise the situation would easily get out of control, and he might not be able to become the commander of the Ukrainian Navy as he wished.
As the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Meiro is not having a good time at this time.
He has to bear dual pressure from Russia and Ukraine at the same time.
In fact, Admiral Meiro himself was a little aggrieved. He was just doing a small business, selling some things to supplement the navy's military expenses that could not make ends meet. Compared with the Ukrainian arms smuggling, he was very restrained.
You must know that the former Soviet Union established three large-scale military regions in Ukraine, and that Ukraine, as the forefront battlefield of the Third World War envisioned by the former Soviet Union, had a large amount of strategic materials and weapons and equipment stored there in advance, including thousands of
tanks, a large number of combat aircraft, armored vehicles, a large number of tactical and strategic missiles, and a large number of air defense weapon systems.
Where are all these weapons and equipment going now?! In fact, these things have been stolen and resold by Ukrainians all over the world! After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine acquired the wealthy Black Sea Shipping Company and Danube Shipping Company, which were all large-scale enterprises in the former Soviet Union.
As a state-owned enterprise, Ukraine has also acquired the scientific expedition fleet of the Academy of Sciences of the former Soviet Union, with a total of 1,600 ships of various types. Two of the shipping companies have many passenger ships operating routes between the Soviet Union and Western countries, and those scientific research vessels are for expeditions.
equipped for the Indian Ocean, but where have all these ships gone now?!
Ukrainians are willing to sell anything for money. Even the suitcase Ye Kai got was a nuclear bomb, which was leaked from Ukraine.
As for the residential buildings in Sevastopol, they were actually funded and built by Russian officers and soldiers of the Black Sea Fleet. Of course, they were unwilling to give these residences to Ukrainians.
"I am very disappointed with President Yeltsin..." When Admiral Meiro saw Ye Kai again, his expression was very depressed. In this dispute, he had received almost no support from Moscow.
At that time, Russian President Yeltsin, Minister of Defense and Commander of the Navy only gave some high-sounding and very empty instructions to the Black Sea Fleet, without any meaningful support. At this moment of crisis, Admiral Meilo almost always
They all received orders from Kiev, but there were no calls from Moscow.
The old man felt with some despair that they seemed to have been forgotten by Moscow, and even their rations and supplies had been interrupted.
"What can I do at this time? I try my best to keep the fleet stable and ask the officers and soldiers to wait in the military port to guard our warships. All the officers and I are not only worried about the warships, but also worried about the arrested officers and their wives, children and children in Ukraine.
And we seem to be people the motherland does not need." The old man said angrily, "When the salary arrears for officers and soldiers reached three months, I couldn't sit still. I called the Ministry of Defense in Moscow and issued an ultimatum to them.
If the salary money is not remitted, I will be forced to send an attack fleet to the Turkish port of Istanbul to plunder the wealth there. I have done intelligence work there and I know Istanbul as well as my five fingers.
I know all the markets and banks in this city very well!”
Ye Kai looked at the old man with some sympathy. Although he was only in his fifties, it could be seen that he had been wandering on the sea all his life. As a soldier, he had fulfilled his obligations. The fall of his faith made
The old man has no one to whom he can be loyal.
For the sake of this fleet, he even took risks to rob banks and changed his career to become a pirate!
"Your Majesty General, I sincerely invite you once again to set off now. The check has been written." Ye Kai said very sincerely, "Now that you have reached this point, you should make some plans for yourself."
"Okay, I'm worthy of anyone!" The old man slapped the table and finally made up his mind.