After two days of talks, Russian President Yeltsin and Ukrainian General Kravchuk finally reached a consensus and made arrangements for the carving up of the Black Sea Fleet.
Russia and Ukraine reached an agreement in Yalta to turn the Black Sea Fleet into a Russian-Ukrainian joint fleet, under joint command of the two countries.
The issues discussed by the two countries were not only the division of the fleet, but also the issue of Russia's leasing of military ports in Ukraine. Under Russia's suppression using natural gas input as a bargaining chip, Ukraine was forced to agree to sign a 25-year lease of military ports to Russia.
agreement.
Of course, in order to express its gratitude, Russia will pay Ukraine nearly 100 million U.S. dollars every year for this.
Originally, Russia hoped to pay in rubles, but in view of the current severe situation of the depreciation of the ruble, Ukrainian President Kravchuk decisively rejected this proposal and paid in U.S. dollars instead.
This matter seems to have been resolved smoothly, but what is very embarrassing is that starting from June 1st, dozens of staff members of a special design bureau of the Black Sea Fleet trapped themselves in a room in the office building of the bureau.
Here, an "indefinite hunger strike" was announced to demand repayment of wages owed for up to one and a half years, and to "resolve the future fate of the company...".
The director of the management department of the bureau said that in order to recover back wages, the bureau employees had reported the problem to leaders at all levels in Russia and Ukraine, from the local mayor to the presidents of Russia and Ukraine. However, after the letter of complaint was sent,
No news.
They chose the hunger strike only when they had no choice but to do so.
More than 20 people on hunger strike in the Black Sea Fleet are Ukrainian citizens, which makes this incident somewhat of an international dispute.
Because the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Meiro, was on a business trip in Moscow at the time of the incident, the deputy commander of the fleet personally took action to persuade the employees to stop the hunger strike. However, the negotiations between the Black Sea Fleet and the hunger strikers broke up in the early morning of June 23.
, Ming Nuxing, who participated in the hunger strike, called for emergency medical assistance due to severe physical discomfort. At noon on June 24, the fleet finally reached a compromise with the hunger strikers. One party promised to repay the arrears of wages in the near future, and the other party stopped the hunger strike.
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In fact, this is not the first time that members of the Black Sea Fleet have protested against wages.
At the beginning of this year, nine staff members of the Black Sea Fleet's Construction Bureau held a rally near the office building of the Engineering and Construction Corps, demanding repayment of wages owed for more than a year. In fact, staff of the Northern Fleet's Naval Construction Bureau also announced a hunger strike to demand repayment of arrears.
debt, and threatened to block road traffic from Murmansk to Severomorsk. Only after the Russian Defense Minister personally interrogated did these employees get their wages back.
The hunger strike incident cast a shadow on the talks between Yeltsin and Kravchuk, which also told them the fact that the Black Sea Fleet was a hot potato. Although it was very important, it also had many non-performing assets.
Ukraine itself is not capable of eating this piece of fat, but this does not rule out the idea of them using this matter as a bargaining chip to obtain more benefits from Russia.
After the salary dispute, when the leaders of the two countries were preparing to appoint new fleet leadership, another embarrassment occurred. Admiral Meiro, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, was "hijacked" with the most powerful weapons of the Black Sea Fleet.
The Varyag aircraft carrier, which is under construction and has yet to be completed, passed through the Bosporus Strait and entered the Mediterranean Sea. It is said that it was engaged in military exercises.
Although the Ukrainian deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet stayed at the base to look after the house and had a large number of ships in his hands, the quality of these ships could not be compared with the ships brought by Admiral Meylo.
It is because the design is backward, or it is a gunboat with a relatively small tonnage, which cannot form a strong combat effectiveness.
The most important point is that Admiral Meillo seems to have no intention of accepting the adaptation. At this time, they are still flying the Soviet flag and the Soviet Navy flag, and the flag is still the Soviet Navy's Black Sea Fleet.
Although Russia and Ukraine found this situation a bit strange, they did not think that they were planning to defect.
Because of the size of the Black Sea Fleet, not any country is likely to accept this hot potato. Especially no one would have thought that there would be people who dared to take up the idea of dispatching twenty-two warships and the Varyag aircraft carrier collectively.
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Both Moscow and Kiev sent telegrams to the fleet commander, Admiral Meiro, but did not receive a positive response and communications were interrupted. Both sides felt a little worried about this.
However, due to the previous racial conflicts caused by the Black Sea Fleet, as well as the subsequent disputes over housing allocation and the impact of the hunger strike and wage strike, both sides believed that this was mainly an attempt by the Black Sea Fleet to coerce Russia and Ukraine to increase their military investment.
As a means to solve the salary arrears problem for them, they did not realize that at this time, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Meiro, had sold the entire traveling fleet to Ye Kai.
What they didn't expect was that this fleet was just the escort fleet of the Varyag aircraft carrier.
Due to this reason, neither Russia nor the Ukrainians reacted until the mixed fleet of the Black Sea Fleet sailed out of the Mediterranean Sea. What on earth was going on?
"How could they not react at all?!" Wang Luodan was very shocked when he saw this result.
Although she is an expert in ship technology, she has also put a lot of effort into the naval power of various countries. Of course, she is very aware of the strength of the Black Sea Fleet. Therefore, seeing this mixed fleet sailing out of the Mediterranean so easily, she instinctively
It feels incredible. Do you think the Russians and Ukrainians have lost their minds? How is it possible that there are no blocking measures at all?!
"Actually, the most critical point here is that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is very deep, which affects their judgment on this matter." Ye Kai explained the mystery in one sentence.
If this was just an action of a country's naval power, such a mistake would certainly not have occurred.
"Of the approximately 48 million Ukrainians, 12 million are ethnic Russians. Before the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, Russian was one of the official languages of Ukraine." Ye Kai told Wang Luodan. "After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Ukraine launched a language war against Russia, and Russian was banned by the constitution.
Listed as a minority language. Ukraine has begun a de-Russification movement, closing countless Russian-language schools, and not one of Ukraine’s higher education institutions officially uses Russian! The practice of excluding Russian from television, radio and media has become more and more widespread across the country.
Ukraine has received support from the state power! In the Ukrainian city of Lviv, it is prohibited to sing Russian songs in the streets, squares and bus systems, and violators will be fined Rivna!"
"It feels like the Chinese people were forced to learn Japanese during the Manchukuo period." Wang Luodan commented.
"The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has a long history. Ukrainian nationalists who cooperated with the fascist German army include Bandera and others. They once fought with the Soviet Red Army and killed thousands of Red Army and NKVD members. Ukrainian Nationalism
The elements also organized the 14,000-strong SS Grenadier Division and several police regiments for the fascists in June 1944." Ye Kai continued, "These bad guys who cooperated with the Nazis have now become the Ukrainian nation.
Heroes, because they once opposed the Russian occupation of Ukraine. Their monuments were erected, while the monuments to the anti-fascist Red Army heroes were demolished! They even killed many senior Nazi officials and saved Ukraine from fascist Germany.
The monument to Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov, the heroic Soviet Red Army scout who died during the occupation, was also demolished with a rope tied to his head.”
"This is a bit too much..." Wang Luodan said.
Even if the Annan people no longer have a conscience, even during the Republic's self-defense counterattack against the Annan people, the Annan people did not destroy the tombs of the republican revolutionaries who resisted the United States and aided Vietnam. Even if the Republic and the Soviet Union had a treasure island war, the Republic would never
We will protect the tombs of the Soviet martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the Republic’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Resistance against U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.
The Ukrainians want to change their people's memory of history, please the West, and stay away from the Russians. This is indeed unethical.
Another point is that during the former Soviet Union, many parts of Soviet fighter jets, MiG fighter jets, Soviet aircraft carriers, etc. were designed and produced in Ukraine. Ukraine also had some maintenance and repair capabilities, but the main part was designed and produced in Russia.
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After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan began to use its inheritance from the former Soviet Union to seize some of Russia's customers or resources, such as supplying relatively advanced large-scale hovercraft to the Republic, and Ukraine's intention to transfer their carrier-based take-off decks, etc.
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These inconsistencies have led to a lot of suspicion between Russia and Ukraine. It is impossible for the two presidents to be as comfortable as they were during negotiations and to be able to coexist peacefully and calmly.
It is precisely because of this that when the Black Sea Fleet sailed under the banner of the Soviet Union, the Russians and Ukrainians almost simultaneously believed that this matter was caused by the other side, in order to increase their leverage in carving up the Black Sea Fleet.
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"All in all, this time it's really the right time, the right place, the right people, and everyone is on our side, so things will go very smoothly. It turns out that I thought I was going to have some setbacks. Fortunately, I was lucky. It was a fluke!"
When this happened, Ye Kai was in a very good mood.
However, when the Black Sea Fleet passed through the Bosporus, Turkey jumped out to express its objections. However, the Black Sea Fleet was flying the Soviet naval flag at this time, which made them feel a little frightened.
Now that the Soviet Union no longer exists, their practice of flying the Soviet naval flag is actually similar to flying the pirate flag. Since there is nothing too outrageous, Turkey just yelled twice to express protest and that was it.
By the time the Americans noticed what was happening here, the Varyag aircraft carrier, accompanied by the escort fleet of the Black Sea Fleet, had entered the Atlantic Ocean.
Along the way, there are no more obstacles, and there is no force that can stop such a huge "Soviet" Black Sea Fleet.
Unless, start a war!
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