The British Navy may have helped Ukraine sink Putin’s cruiser. The ex-general says Moskva
Leonard T. Koonce
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Falkland Islands war hero Admiral Lord Alan West made the accusations after Russian officials confessed the ship had sunk in the Black Sea.
According to reports, Ukraine claims to have attacked the ship with a cruise missile after distracting the 12,490-ton warship’s defenses with drones.
In an interview with The Sun Online, the 73-year-old said the training, which is part of an ongoing assistance program known as “Operation Orbital”, provided Ukrainian personnel with the know- do necessary.
Last year, British specialists trained Ukrainian soldiers in naval warfare at the 198th Naval Forces Training Center, a diving school and a naval school.
According to the Defense Ministry, they also trained special Ukrainian sailors, pilots and marines as part of the critical mission.
The offer was part of a rotation of more than 100 British Army, Navy and RAF soldiers who have traveled in and out of Ukraine since 2015.
It is believed that at the time Britain trained 22,000 Ukrainian soldiers.
“We were absolutely training the Ukrainians in naval warfare extensively, so they knew how to use surface-to-surface missiles and how best to deploy them,” Lord West revealed.
“The Neptune missile needs targeted information to determine its first route of flight, after which it switches to its own sensors.”
The Ukrainian-made subsonic missile is based on the former Soviet Kh-35 anti-ship missile and has a range of over 200 MILES.
The entire system, which was first deployed in Ukraine last year, consists of a truck-mounted mobile launcher, four missiles, a reload vehicle and a command and support vehicle. control.
It is meant to fly close to the surface of the water in order to evade detection, then it strikes its target before it even realizes it.
He explained: “If the Ukrainians were able to use drones and other intelligence information that they could have obtained from us and other allies, to target that at a long distance from the coast, that would change the Russian tactics.
