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Sanctions-Proof Oil Rig Thwarts US Policy From Cuba to Russia
The oil rig was built mostly in China and drilled its first well in Cuba. Now it’s delivering a victory for Russia in its fight against U.S. sanctions.
Italian oil giant Eni SpA and Russia’s state-controlled Rosneft PJSC are using the Scarabeo 9 ultra-deepwater rig to drill in water more than 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) deep in the Black Sea. It’s the first well drilled by a western company at a Russian oil project that falls squarely under U.S. sanctions imposed on the sector in 2014.
For Vladimir Putin, it’s a second energy-sector victory in a little over a week after the $27 billion Yamal liquefied natural gas project started shipping cargoes despite U.S. sanctions against its controlling shareholder.
“It is important not because of the size, but from a geopolitical perspective it is key,” said Alejandro Demichelis, director at boutique investment bank Hannam & Partners. “Eni and the Italians in general have been closer to Russia than they have been to the U.S., at least in terms of oil and gas. They have always been on Putin’s side to solve problems.”
Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin said on Monday that drilling had started on the Maria-1 well in the past few days, highlighting the “technological complexity” of the project.
Legal Loopholes
It’s also legally complex. Indeed, a request from Exxon Mobil Corp. earlier this year for a sanctions waiver to drill with Rosneft at a nearby license was rejected by the U.S. government.
For Eni to drill the well, which falls under U.S. and European sanctions targeting Russian shale, Arctic and deepwater oil development, the Italian company had to exploit a series of loopholes.
First, while European Union sanctions largely mirror those of the U.S., they do allow the “grandfathering” of projects that were agreed before sanctions were imposed.
Second, the Scarabeo 9, which is owned by Saipem SpA, is no ordinary deepwater rig. It was built mostly in China, to a Norwegian design. That means it sidesteps U.S. trade sanctions that restrict the use of U.S.-made or -designed equipment, even by non-U.S. companies.
The rig’s first outing in 2012 was to drill for Repsol SA off Cuba.
Made in China
“The Scarabeo 9 is one of the very few units in the industry which is using a technology which is not an American one,” Saipem’s then CEO Pietro Franco Tali told investors before its maiden voyage to Cuba.
In a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2014, National Oilwell Varco Inc. confirmed it had sold a blow-out preventer, a key piece of high-tech kit, to Scarabeo 9 before the Cuba project. The Houston-based company said it stopped providing equipment to the rig as soon as it knew where it would be operating.
Earlier this year, the rig spent several months in port in the Canary Islands to make its towers bendable so it could pass through the Bosphorus and get to the Black Sea.
Eni and Saipem discussed the drilling campaign with the U.S. and Italian governments and received authorization to proceed, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the talks were private.
Eni and Saipem declined to comment.
Frontier Well
Sechin said on Monday that the West-Chernomorsky block where Eni and Rosneft are drilling could contain 600 million tons of oil and 100 billion cubic meters of gas.
“You have quite a large chance of finding something there,” said Christian Boermel, senior Russia analyst at consultants Wood Mackenzie, though he added that it remained unproven. “It’s very much a frontier well.”
Still, analysts said Eni’s main objective was probably to maintain good relations with Rosneft, which recently paid $1.125 billion for a stake in the Italian company’s Zohr field off Egypt.
Rosneft had originally agreed to develop the Black Sea license with Chevron Corp. in 2010, before the U.S. company walked away after drilling a dry well in nearby Turkish waters.
Tightening Sanctions
Eni’s Black Sea well may end up being an outlier rather than a trendsetter. A new law passed by U.S. congress this year strengthens sanctions on the Russian oil industry by extending them to any non-U.S. person who “knowingly makes a significant investment” into a Russian deepwater, shale or offshore Arctic project after Sept. 1, 2017.
Eni’s Black Sea project was able to proceed in spite of this and thanks to lobbying by the Italian government and the fact the company had agreed to the drilling program before sanctions were imposed, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company is unlikely to drill more than one well in the area, said another person.
Still, the drilling sets a new benchmark for the ability of companies from U.S. allies to work in Russia’s oil sector.
A Japanese group’s plans to explore for oil with Rosneft off the coast of Sakhalin were stymied earlier this year after the U.S. objected, saying that G-7 allies shouldn’t “backfill” sanctions by allowing their companies to carry out projects barred to U.S. ones.
“It clearly gives Eni an advantage in terms of their relationship with Rosneft,” said James Henderson, a Russian oil expert at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. “You can understand why Exxon are upset about that.”
86 Comments on "Sanctions-Proof Oil Rig Thwarts US Policy From Cuba to Russia"
Makati1 on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 2:25 am
MM, what “missile defense system? Oh, you mean the one built 50+ years ago and is now in disrepair and would likely not stop even 10% of any missiles. That is, IF the US missiles even work. No guarantee.
And, besides, what makes you think they will all come over the North Pole like in the old days? One Russian sub carries enough to wipe out 100+ US cities. Standing 1,000 miles off shore, say the other side of Bermuda, it would be less than 5 minutes from firing to explosion over NYC. Or they can be fired from any ship big enough. Even freighters coming into US ports. Russia fired their missiles from the Caspian Sea and hit their target in Syria. They know their stuff works, The US has no idea if their antiques will even launch.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/5-russian-nuclear-weapons-war-the-west-should-fear-12159
US exceptionalist bullshit does not stop missiles. Nor does denial that the Russians can destroy the US anytime they want. Whereas, the Russians have the most advanced anti-missile system in the world by far and they have proved it. That is why even American “allies”are buying them and not US junk.
Get educated. Your life will depend on it.
Makati1 on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 2:29 am
Greg, Some cannot face reality. MM, Davy and even Boat are among that crowd. Snowflakes.
If you cannot face the real world, how do you prepare for the future? By watching Disney movies and playing with crayons? Denying anything you don’t want to hear? Ignoring the blaring sirens around you? I prefer to know what is happening and to do what I can to avoid or, at least, have less pain than necessary.
Davy on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 4:07 am
“Greg, Some cannot face reality. MM, Davy and even Boat are among that crowd. Snowflakes.”
You are one stupid obtuse old man.” Look up dork and add unoriginal to it.
Davy on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 4:10 am
mad kat, the US can destroy the rest of the world combined with a second strike even if it is surprised. I suggest you avoid talking military matters. Remember when you were saying how there are 10MIL men under arms on the Korean peninsula? Now that was a stupid. lol.
Makati1 on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 4:21 am
Ah yes, Davy, it is called suicide. Nukes will do that.
The US can be destroyed by an EMP that only takes out the US infrastructure and a bit of Canada’s. In seconds, everything in America will stop to never start again. This is 2017, not 1917.
“You are one stupid obtuse old man.” Look up dork and add unoriginal to it.”
How did Greg put it? “More name calling, childish rhetoric, and delusional accusations. You are one seriously deranged individual.”
Well said and spot on. It is the the rebuttal of a loser.
Davy on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 4:33 am
“Ah yes, Davy, it is called suicide. Nukes will do that.”
Then why are you always saying Russia will destroy the US without taking that a step further? The reason why is your binary agenda of win/lose. You don’t get it.
“The US can be destroyed by an EMP that only takes out the US infrastructure and a bit of Canada’s. In seconds, everything in America will stop to never start again. This is 2017, not 1917.”
Anywhere in the world can be attacked with an EMP stupid.
“How did Greg put it? “More name calling, childish rhetoric, and delusional accusations. You are one seriously deranged individual.”
You are quoting a mental case who wanted to have sex with me and wanted to come on down to Missouri and find me. Not a very good example. Besides the both of you do the name calling. You are the most disgusting person on the board for instigating hate and polarization and attention seeking. You brag about yourself and cut other people down. DISGUSTING
Makati1 on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 4:52 am
Dream on delusional Davy. Your mind is going or already gone. I have no reason to believe anything you post here. It is all bullshit. “Anywhere in the world can be attacked with an EMP stupid.” But only in the US would it have the huge effect that the rest of the world would applaud. YOU don’t understand how much YOUR life depends on the JIT system and how much the rest of the world would like to see the US dead. Odds are good that a US missile would never get cross the Russian border. Ditto for China. But, I bet theirs could easily get above Kansas. Want to bet your life on it?
You can just ignore anyone on here you don’t agree with, but you cannot. You have to attack like a crazed animal with rabies. Your insecurity does not allow you to ignore those who point out the truth. You have to attack like some little Chihuahua dog. Yipping at everybody like he’s some big bulldog defending his turf. Yip! Yip! Yip!
What is your BP these days without meds? 180/120? Yip! Yip!Yip! You are so much fun to poke a stick at Davy boy. Your reaction is predictable. And harmless. Frustrating isn’t it? LOL
Davy on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 5:08 am
“But only in the US would it have the huge effect that the rest of the world would applaud. YOU don’t understand how much YOUR life depends on the JIT system and how much the rest of the world would like to see the US dead. Odds are good that a US missile would never get cross the Russian border. Ditto for China. But, I bet theirs could easily get above Kansas. Want to bet your life on it?”
Mad Kat, so you believe the rest of the world is not plugged into the JIT network? LOL. Yea, no wonder you have such poor economic postings. Likewise again your posting on military matters shows your lack of intelligence. You can’t have it both ways mad kat. The US has plenty of missiles to get across the border and destroy China and Russia COMBINED, stupid. What planet are you from? I know planet dork orbiting the sun dumb.
“You can just ignore anyone on here you don’t agree with, but you cannot. You have to attack like a crazed animal with rabies.”
I moderate and neuter extremist and it is working. This board is far less extreme as it used to be. The primary person I attack is you mad kat. Every one of your intellectually lame post get neutered. You are a failure even near the end of your life. You can’t even succeed in your fantasy life.
Your insecurity does not allow you to ignore those who point out the truth. You have to attack like some little Chihuahua dog. Yipping at everybody like he’s some big bulldog defending his turf. Yip! Yip! Yip!
LOL, are you copying me mad kat. You know I always use the Chihuahua analogy for you when you join in on an attack. Now you are copying me with it. They say copying is a compliment. Thanks mad kat for the compliment.
“What is your BP these days without meds? 180/120? Yip! Yip!Yip! You are so much fun to poke a stick at Davy boy. Your reaction is predictable. And harmless. Frustrating isn’t it? LOL”
As your dumbass friend says constantly “give it a rest already” I am far healthier than you old man and if I were to get sick I have health care. If I die I have a family to bury me. You have none of that. You are just an old man nearing his end who will be buried in an unmarked common grave for nobodies.
Makati1 on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 5:27 am
Davy, do you believe that they would not just adjust and move on? The US is NOT indispensable. It IS dispensable and the rest of the world is already turning away from it. You have an insane president that is making enemies of old allies daily. A warmongering military that is ready to commit national suicide again. A UN delegate that is also insane. And Israeli masters that want to take over the ME at any cost, including the end of the US.
Don’t you see that the destruction of the US is in the plans by the people who really control the world. The Great Leveling that is underway will accomplish that. It must be brought down to 3rd world levels so the World Government can rule. The US is NOT the center of power. It is a hindrance their total control.
BTW: You “moderate” shit. Your self-importance has warped your reality. All you do is prove your inability to accept facts that you don’t like. Too bad. Reality is a bitch and does not care who you are or how much money you have. It is just … reality. An equal opportunity destroyer.
I have more than you will ever have in the way of family and friends. Real friends. Most Americans don’t know how to be a friend. Too self-centered and greedy. In the US it is ALL about $$$.
My “end” will be after yours, Davy. You are headed for an early grave because you are too short tempered and arrogant. Stress or a bullet will take you before I even get old. When you are 73, you might understand, but you will likely never see that many years. Enjoy these. They are the best it will ever be. ^_^
Davy on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 5:38 am
“Davy, do you believe that they would not just adjust and move on?”
Come on mad kat, they will be destroyed as the US will be destroyed.
“The US is NOT indispensable.”
Shut up lunatic. All major powers are indispensable or globalism fails. You again show how stupid you are with macroeconomics.
“Don’t you see that the destruction of the US is in the plans by the people who really control the world. The Great Leveling that is underway will accomplish that. It must be brought down to 3rd world levels so the World Government can rule. The US is NOT the center of power. It is a hindrance their total control.”
Old man Fantasies from a lunatic. Boy, you are losing it mad kat.
“BTW: You “moderate” shit. Your self-importance has warped your reality. All you do is prove your inability to accept facts that you don’t like. Too bad. Reality is a bitch and does not care who you are or how much money you have. It is just … reality. An equal opportunity destroyer.”
The whine of someone neutered and moderated.
“I have more than you will ever have in the way of family and friends. Real friends. Most Americans don’t know how to be a friend. Too self-centered and greedy. In the US it is ALL about $$$.”
You deserted you family for a Filipino boyfriend. That covers that. Lol.
“My “end” will be after yours, Davy.”
75 and no health insurance. That covers that. Double lol.
onlooker on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 8:04 am
The ponzi scheme that is capitalism is in collapse , as is the entire biosphere.
We have passed peak everything and at the most challenging moment in the history of our species we have psychopathic, insane, climate change denying, imperialist, fundamentalist, evangelical Christians who believe in “The Rapture” at the helm of our sinking ship.
We are fucked way beyond conventional political analysis.
This is an existential crisis mixed with insanity.
Brace for imminent impact.
TurningPoint on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 9:02 am
This site has seriously degenerated.
Sissyfuss on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 9:25 am
It is merely reflecting present day conditions, TP. Everybody’s sqauking, nobody’s talking. Most egos won’t allow their owners to admit that the mystery that comprises their existence is ineffable and thaumaturgic. My experience with women has enlightened me to the notion that humans are enigmas surrounded by misgivings wrapped in lunacy.
Davy on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 10:25 am
Turned the point. Go to the structured side become a member and whine about how bad the lower class citizens are on the unmoderated 3rd class level. We could give a rats ass what you think. You contribute nothing to our enlightenment.
Cloggie on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 12:24 pm
This site has seriously degenerated.
What did you expect now that the announced and anticipated mega-event, Peak Oil Now, has been called off indefinitely.
All dressed up and nowhere to go.
There you sit in your doomstead, after having mocked your friends for years because they “didn’t get it”… and next nothing happens. Total embarrassment after betting on the wrong horse. Would make me angry too. Fortunately I left the “Movement” just in time (end 2012) and kept the damage limited to a backyard-turned-vegetable garden, solar panels and a low-energy fridge and freezer. My silly backup-generator nobody gets to see.
fmr-paultard on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 1:43 pm
notice how eurotard is an extremist and a slow learner. he used to be a paultard then eurotard and white supremacy. he isn’t aware that jews and islam was on the scene 2000 and 1400 years ago. he also swung from peakoil to techno extremism.
this in the face of supertard being negative on oil and repeatedly asserted that the future is impossible to grasp
Davy on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 2:28 pm
Better a wrong horse than a unicorn. IMA, the horse is out to pasture. She will be back.
Cloggie on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 2:48 pm
notice how eurotard is an extremist and a slow learner. he used to be a paultard then eurotard and white supremacy.
White supremacy is a communist smear word. In reality it is about white separatism.
he isn’t aware that jews and islam was on the scene 2000 and 1400 years ago.
What you not say! Where would I be without you and not being updated on matters of great importance.
he also swung from peakoil to techno extremism.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I am merely an EU-normie when it comes to renewable energy.
GregT on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 2:51 pm
“Fortunately I left the “Movement” just in time (end 2012) and kept the damage limited to a backyard-turned-vegetable garden, solar panels and a low-energy fridge and freezer.”
How do you figure that a vegetable garden, solar panels, and a low energy fridge and freezer, are in any way ‘damage’? I would consider all three to be positive choices, regardless of any future scenario.
“My silly backup-generator nobody gets to see.”
How many people get to see your house, or automobile insurance? If you are fortunate, the same number of people who get to see your generator. Keep your fingers crossed.
Cloggie on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 3:12 pm
That about “damage” was ironic. I do not regret the goodies mentioned. But currently I have a far more relaxed world view than in 2010. Everything is moving in the right direction (for Europe).
GregT on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 3:42 pm
“Everything is moving in the right direction (for Europe).”
Which Europe, on what planet, would you be referring to? Because everything over here in this part of the universe, on the planet called Earth, is heading in the wrong direction.
Cloggie on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 3:57 pm
The Europe that is taking the lead in combatting climate change:
https://youtu.be/l1mrs6DZklM
MASTERMIND on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 4:34 pm
Cloggie what are you going to do when the oil shortages hit in a few years?
onlooker on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 4:47 pm
Do you mean this Europe Clog
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/810085/Brussels-economist-EU-closer-union-Europe-Merkel-Juncker
Also, the one that is neither endowed with abundance of resources or a advantageous population to resource ratio. And the one that doesn’t have any comparative military supremacy. And the one who is at the doorstep of the huge masses of impoverished and desperate from Asia, Middle East and Africa.
I guess not so it must be fantasy Europe
Davy on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 5:22 pm
Europe is stuck in the 900 GHG range for nearly a decade now. Europe is trying but failing at overly ambitious targets. There is nothing yet to brag about.
Davy on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 5:54 pm
Germany Greenhouse gas emissions
http://tinyurl.com/hnjongr
MASTERMIND on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 6:56 pm
DON’T WORRY THERE ARE SMART PEOPLE WORKING IN OUR GOVERNMENT THEY WOULD WARN US BEFORE WE RUN OUT OF OIL
dissident on Thu, 21st Dec 2017 11:56 pm
@Boat and other chest thumping “invincible”
Germans thought just like you in 1941 that they would roll over the USSR in six months. They did not even pack winter clothing. By 1943 they were in retreat and never regained the initiative.
Russia is vastly more prepared for war today than it was in 1939. Your advantages are figments of your own imagination. Not surprising, since haters are full of sh*t.
Cloggie on Fri, 22nd Dec 2017 1:14 am
“Do you mean this Europe Clog”
Haha, got any other reference than the notorious Europe haters from Express?
Britain, the historic Nemesis of continental Europe. The British are plotting for the downfall of Europe 24/7/365. They organized WW1 and volunteered to do the same on behalf of US Jewry via Churchill in WW2. Here a good American explaining the role of the US in 1939 in getting the war started that would bring them Europe, all by design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abzpJKuUtjw
Now this Brexit thingy… it is completely undecided how this is going to be played out. It could be anything between a total economic blockade and even war over Gibraltar and Westmonster parliament torpedoing Brexit altogether at the last moment.
I hope for something in between. A soft Brexit, where the UK remains a paying member of the Common Market, but no longer participates in Brussels. Britain as a soft of XL Norway.
I tentatively see Macron as a positive factor. He is not as fanatic about open borders as that horrible Merkel c*, he has style, dares to challenge the US, clearly does not want to escalate the conflict with Russia, takes CC serious and renewable energy. France clearly sides with Germany, not the UK.
The attitude in Europe must be: keep your powder dry, build an army and build offshore wind turbines and in the mean time wait for the inevitable, namely when bongo China no longer accepts bongo America as its senior, not in Asia. Let them lock horns while Europe and Russia play nice to each other. They should prepare themselves for intervention in North-America when the US escalates the conflict with China about top-dog position and as a reaction secession movements in the US erupts, to avoid being sacrificed in the Asian meat grinder. When that happens, the EU should be abolished, the Greater European confederation established (capital Prague) and Greater Europe declaring itself the protector of European America. Intervene and help creating an XXL Paraguay and white republic between Appalachians and Rockies and north of the Red River of the South, strongly tied to Greater Europe. That constellation would easily be able to contain China.
Welcome to the identitarian world of the 21st century.
Cloggie on Fri, 22nd Dec 2017 1:22 am
Germans thought just like you in 1941 that they would roll over the USSR in six months. They did not even pack winter clothing.
You understand shit about history. The 1941 German attack was an act of German desperation, because they knew if they didn’t attack first, they would be steam-rolled by the USSR first. Thanks to Dolfie, the Netherlands and France didn’t fell into hands of the USSR but in the hands of the lesser evil USA.
They were ill-prepared, not out of negligence, but because it was all they had. One month earlier, Hitler send his deputy Hess to Britain in a desperate reckless attempt to at least make peace with the British, because the Germans knew a Soviet attack was immanent. But Churchill had been plotting for war with Roosevelt and Stalin since the mid-thirties and wanted it to happen:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/churchill-stalin-alliance-as-of-1934/
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/tyler-kent/
Here a Soviet spy and defector spilling the beans about Barbarossa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Clv-c6QdBs
This will all come into the open after the end of American Era.
GregT on Fri, 22nd Dec 2017 2:30 am
“This will all come into the open after the end of American Era.”
Soon Cloggie.
The ZOG was effectively neutered today at the UN. The only nations with continued support would be Guatemala, Honduras, Nauru, The Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Togo, and of course Israel and the US. Expect tensions to rise with Iran. This will likely be the last stab at their NWO.
Davy on Fri, 22nd Dec 2017 4:20 am
“Russia is vastly more prepared for war today than it was in 1939. Your advantages are figments of your own imagination. Not surprising, since haters are full of sh*t.”
Bullshit, no nation is prepared for a real war anymore. A real war is the end of globalization as we know it and the breakdown of modern civilization. Russia is no better than the US in this respect. It is plugged into the world economy. Proxy wars are another story and that is what we are seeing today.
Davy on Fri, 22nd Dec 2017 4:29 am
“Welcome to the identitarian world of the 21st century.”
“Welcome to a Eurotard fantasy”
Davy on Fri, 22nd Dec 2017 4:30 am
“You understand shit about history. The 1941 German attack was an act of German desperation”
Fantasy Eurotard revisionism
Cloggie on Fri, 22nd Dec 2017 12:21 pm
“The ZOG was effectively neutered today at the UN”
Exactly my thoughts.
This Sikh (sic) girl Nimrata Randhawa (“Nikki Haley”), who exactly knows on which side her bread is buttered…
http://cdn.timesofisrael.com/uploads/2017/03/US-Israel_Horo-e1490666626203.jpg
…could threaten what she wanted, the rest of world just shrugged.
The Muslims constituted the majority in Palestine for at least 800 years…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)
…until the Zionists decided to take over the country by force after the war. The idea to simply ignore the right of the Palestinians is ridiculous and will backfire.
Cloggie on Fri, 22nd Dec 2017 12:36 pm
“Welcome to a Eurotard fantasy”
“Fantasy Eurotard revisionism”
Heartland USA intellectualism at its finest:
Sneer
Zero content
Davy, the “strong and silent type”, silent because he doesn’t have a clue what to talk about.
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/roosevelt-6-feb-1939-rhine-river-us-frontier/
The so-called liberation of France:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/10/history-of-an-almost-occupation/
And here the hammer: German intelligence reporting to be Berlin that the USSR is in a state of total mobilization (scroll down half-way):
https://archive.org/stream/ProklamationDesFhrersAnDasDeutscheVolkUndNoteDesAuswrtigenAmtes/HitlerAdolf1941ProklamationDesFhrers_djvu.txt
The history of WW2: one giant pack of Anglo-Soviet lies.
Der Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht F. H. Qu., d. 11. Mai 1941
WFST / Abt. L (I Op) Nr. 00 886/41 g.Kdos.
Geheime Kommandosache
An den Herrn Reichsminister des AeuBern
Sehr verehrter Herr Reichsminister I
Das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht beobachtet seit Monaten mit standig wachsender Besorgnis die Entwicklung, die der Aufmarsch
russischer Streitkrafte entlang der deutschen Ostgrenze nimmt.
Nach den hier vorliegenden Meldungen befanden sich bei Kriegs-ausbruch 1939 etwa 77 russische Schiitzen-Divisionen im europaischen RuBland, davon nur wenig mehr als die Halfte im west-russischen Grenzraum. Nach Beendigung des Polenfeldzuges erhohte sich diese Zahl auf 114. Wenn das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht damals eine
gewisse Begriindung dieser MaBnahmen in der allerdings fast kampf-losen Besetzung Ost-Polens durch russische Truppen sah, so muBte es nach planmaBigem Abschlufi dieser Operationen mit um so groBerem Befremden ein noch weiteres Anwachsen dieser Zahl auf 121 feststellen. \