ST. PETERSBURG, May 20. /TASS/. Building up capabilities for protecting national interests in the World Ocean is vitally important for Russia amid the collective West’s ongoing total hybrid warfare against it, Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said at a maritime board meeting in the Admiralty on Friday.

"Security provision is as important as never before amid the collective West’s total hybrid warfare against our country, unprecedented sanctions and the special military operation in Ukraine. It is vitally important for us to build up the capabilities for ensuring and protecting national interests in the World Ocean. The maritime doctrine update reflects changes in the geopolitical and military strategic situation in the world," the vice premier pointed out.

The doctrine’s principally new provisions apply to mobilization training and mobilization readiness in maritime activity, Borisov pointed out.

"What is especially important today is that these measures will help assign civilian ships and crews to the Navy and provide for the operation of maritime infrastructure facilities in wartime," he explained.

The maritime doctrine’s new edition fully responds to present-day challenges and threats and is focused not on confrontation but on raising national security in the sphere of maritime activity and considerably reducing the dependence of all of its branches on external influence and developments, the deputy PM stressed.