Additional fighters Su-27 and Su-30 will be transferred to the Crimea.

Interfax news agency, citing the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, reports that on December 22 2018, it is planned to additionally transfer more than ten Su-27CM and Su-30М2 fighters to the Crimea. This is due to the need to strengthen the capabilities of the Russian videoconferencing on the peninsula, which may be due to the pressure in the region and Ukraine being injected by Ukraine and the West.

It is reported that combat aircraft will be redeployed from the Krasnodar airfield to the Belbek airfield, while earlier it was reported that 24 combat fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces XNUMX were additionally redeployed to the Crimea, since the incident occurred in Kerch the strait Russia has transferred to the Peninsula about a hundred means of combat aviationthat, however, did not find any official confirmations.

Earlier it was reported that the United States plans to strengthen its military presence in the Black Sea, while the night before it became known that the British military reconnaissance ship passed through the Bosphorus to the Black Seawhose purpose of presence in the region remains unknown.