Thursday, 14 July 2016

What Shoigu cleaned out the Baltic Fleet

In addition komflota Kravchuk and chief of staff to Popov, the defense minister sacked 50 more admirals and captains of the Baltic Fleet. Such a total purge in the history of the Russian fleet did not exist.
What Shoigu cleaned out the Baltic Fleet
Alex Sogrin / Interpress
Russian scientists are planning in 2035 to learn how to teleport, ahead of the sailors, who have learned to "distort reality". Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu "achievements" of his subordinates did not appreciate. Such a conclusion can be drawn from official reports the press service of Defense Ministry, on the basis of widespread fielding department board held "Patriot" in the suburban park. Baltic Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Viktor Kravchuk and chief of staff of the Navy, Vice Admiral Sergei Popov dismissed from his post with the wording "for serious shortcomings in the organization of training, daily operations of troops (forces), to take measures to improve the conditions of the placement of personnel, lack of care of subordinates, as well as the distortion of the real state of affairs reports. "
By dismissal presented "a number of officers of the fleet of persons." As the "Fontanka", more than 50 high-ranking officers of the Navy Staff, commanders of squadrons, teams and units to the admiral and kaperangovskih uniform.
Transfer from military to Officialese obscheponyatny, the Baltic Fleet command was accused of failing to repel a potential enemy, develop a life subordinate troops and ships in peacetime, as well as the lie of the higher command. Under Peter I and Comrade Stalin such accusations ended capital punishment in the XXI century humane Ministry of Defense informs about the "removal from military posts and dismissal from military service."
Military experts interviewed by "Fontanka" surprised ministerial "removal of dirty linen in public." According to them, the "clean" command major military units before, but publicly it was never reported. As a rule, such a rank commanders officially dismissed or "for health reasons" or "in connection with his retirement."
"Nobody knows exactly what happened. There was carried out a month check, but it does not in the style nor Putin nor Shoigu - to speak openly for what people are fired, even in such formulations. This is something new. We can only guess what they have done, "- said" Fontanka "military analyst Alexander Golts.
With him in solidarity kalininradsky analyst Vladimir Abramov: "This I for all post-Soviet era, by golly, I do not remember. Typically, we tried to dismiss quietly. On the one hand, it is possible that this is such a demonstrative action. "
In July 2015, Vladimir Putin during his visit to Kaliningrad region praised the state of affairs in the Baltic Fleet.
"Navy successfully provides the country's defense, protecting its national interests, including in the Baltic Fleet, which successfully carries out tasks not only on the native Baltic Sea, but also in other areas of the oceans, with honor demonstrates our flag," - he said then president of Russia.
As it turned out today, reports of the Supreme Commander, to put it mildly, "distort the real state of affairs."
A senior source in the Defense Ministry told "Fontanka" that clean rows preceded by an unscheduled check of the state of affairs in the Navy conducted by officers of the General Staff. The reason for it served as a Russian submarine accident in the Baltic Sea in April 2016. Then, according to the Polish media (later officially refuted the Ministry of Defense of Russia), the Baltic Fleet submarine collided with a Polish warship will likely scout ship, and was severely damaged, which could lead to a repetition of the tragic history of the "Kursk". The command then tried to hide the incident from his superiors, and that was the reason for tight and large-scale inspection.
The audit revealed not only the facts lies the naval leadership in a particular case, but it's failed and the situation in the construction and reconstruction of naval bases and military camps, inefficient spending allocated funds. The inspectors also learned about the failure of the state program of recruitment to the service contract.
"I said, by analogy with football, funded system" yellow cards ". Mr. Kravchuk, run up to it for a long time. Status of the fleet at Kravchuk, said to his subordinates, even worse than its predecessors, is going through the worst times more funding, "- said" Fontanka "Kaliningrad journalist Ilya chair.
One example, says the journalist, "fraud" is, in its investigation of the state of military dormitory , called Baltiysk "Pentagon".
It turned out that the 73 officers' families lived in the building, which in 2011 declared dangerous for living: windows smashed, the room are blown, no hot water, the walls in the mold, overlapping at times crumbling, threatening to bury under the rubble of people - as happened in Omsk . Once a disaster almost occurred: the fourth floor of the building was formed in the third. No, fortunately not died. Two children had run out of the room. But flattened plumbing in the bathroom on the floor. Repair military then do not have to complain banned under threat of dismissal, put toilets in the street. JSC "Slavyanka", service building, as stated to the article, regularly receives money, but because of the work carried out dorm inhabitants remembered only the replacement of light bulbs and replace the pipe under a sink. In the "Slavyanka" the office told reporters that the commander aware of the situation:
- After the tragedy in Omsk all military dormitories and barracks in the country were subjected to checks for hazards to stay. In the Baltic Fleet of such objects have been identified. The military was not allowed even to utter a word about the fact that they can at any time fall rotten beams, or that their children can kill wiring wartime.
After Article Ilya Stulova "Pentagon" was closed, but the "yellow card", as he puts it, Viktor Kravchuk kopilis.
- It turns out, for example, that Kravchuk was friends with the "amber baron 'Viktor Bogdan, known by the nickname Ballet and is now in the international wanted list.Grouping Ballet not only swallow our trade in amber, she worked and other things - directly related to the Baltic Fleet. For example, a few years ago special department detained the tanker in the cabin of which there were a certain Alexander Fomin, an active member of Bogdan groups, and Igor Bogdan - his nephew. The gasoline tank truck was 22 tons of diesel fuel stolen from the ships of the Baltic Fleet.
"The fact that there is (in the Baltic Fleet -. . Ed .) Was created 11th Army Corps and he had to be built barracks, housing for the people who come there, the party machinery.But apparently, the money that has been allocated for this, have been spent on other tasks, and the Commander, Chief of Staff and other officials have not complied with the instructions that they gave the defense minister, we were not ready to to take additional military equipment and strengthen the team, that there is "- said the military expert, retired colonel Viktor Litovkin.
According to a source, "Fontanka" is really the last straw was that the General Staff found the inability to organize the naval leadership interspecies interaction group of troops transferred to the subordination of Baltic Fleet.
In 2012 komflotu Viktor Kravchuk was tasked to create a CDF - Kaliningrad Special Region, a large group of naval, air force and infantry under a single command. During this time the fleet were transferred to the subordination of assault and fighter aircraft, air defense systems, missile systems, "Iskander", the 11th Army Corps, including at the state of more than 4 infantry divisions.
According to the General Staff of the CDF was to be the main deterrent force of the Russian army in the western strategic direction. Baltic Fleet learned to work together with aviation and infantry on the strategic exercise "West 2013" and "Shield of the Union - 2015" in conjunction with the Western Military District and the Union Army of Belarus.
Check the General Staff revealed that all the achievements in strengthening the combat readiness of the fleet were "phony" and the president to exercise "splurge."
"According to my sources, from 11 May to 10 June in the fleet passed inspection of the Ministry of Defence. During this time, the number of technical failures in the performance of tasks exceeds all acceptable norms. All Baltiysk saw on the jetty for tugs brought the submarine. Then she, rather than go under the water, began to smoke.Tugboats quickly took away the boat back. But under the Baltic went joke wrong boat Kravchuk brought into the sea, it was necessary to show command of the exhibit of the World Ocean Museum, this boat during the war is in better condition than the current ", - says Ilya chair.
Today, the Baltic Fleet is structurally subordinated to the Western Military District and the High Command of the Navy, the headquarters of which are located close to each other in St. Petersburg. "Fontanka" tried to find out how long the Baltic Fleet "distorts the real state of affairs" and whether the strong western frontiers of Russia today, but officials ZVO headquarters and the main command of the Navy to this day are not available for comment.
At the time of writing material information about who Shoigu entrust command of the Baltic Fleet, have been reported. It is also unknown whether the Minister taken disciplinary measures to direct commanders Viktor Kravchuk - ZVO commander Andrey Kartapolovu and Commander in Chief of the Navy Vladimir Korolev. However, the sources "Fontanka" remind that Kartapolov  and Korolev relatively new to their positions, and it is possible that the attention to the Baltic Fleet - their handiwork.
So far, only reliably known that the defense minister "ordered as soon as possible to approve the plan to eliminate the deficiencies and implement it." At the end of the year the fleet awaiting re-inspection. "Let's hope that this time the Kaliningrad region we do not have will be taken", - said the military.
Julia Nikitina Irina Tumakova "to Fontanka.ru"

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