{"id":40487,"date":"2025-11-24T17:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=40487"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:29:56","slug":"how-russia-paints-itself-as-naval-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/how-russia-paints-itself-as-naval-power\/","title":{"rendered":"How russia paints itself as &#8220;naval power&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia has declared itself the &#8220;third maritime power in the world,&#8221; but reality contradicts this.<\/p>\n<p>In russian propaganda media, a &#8220;ranking&#8221; is spreading that recognizes russia as the third country in the world in terms of &#8220;naval power.&#8221; This &#8220;ranking&#8221; was created by the russians themselves, and its purpose is clear: to create the illusion of naval capability and russia&#8217;s &#8220;global influence&#8221; against the backdrop of the industry&#8217;s real decline.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fThe russian shipbuilding industry is in deep crisis. Due to sanctions, shipyards have lost access to critical components and are unable to build or properly repair ships. This leads to accidents and project failures.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0frussia has effectively lost its only aircraft carrier, the &#8220;admiral kuznetsov,&#8221; which they have been unable to repair for decades. The modernization of the ship &#8220;admiral chabanenko&#8221; has been disrupted, and a number of strategic Arctic vessels have not been built: of the planned 57 ships for the Northern Sea Route, only 27 are ready.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fRegular incidents have become commonplace for russia. Recently, a coast guard vessel capsized in petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky right during repairs.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, russia is not increasing its &#8220;naval power&#8221; \u2014 it is rapidly losing it. Sanctions, technological backwardness, lack of components, and financial problems have paralyzed the entire sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia has declared itself the &#8220;third maritime power in the world,&#8221; but reality contradicts this. In russian propaganda media, a &#8220;ranking&#8221; is spreading that recognizes russia as the third country in the world in terms of &#8220;naval power.&#8221; This &#8220;ranking&#8221; was created by the russians themselves, and its purpose is clear: to create the illusion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}