While US President Joe Biden spoke on the phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Russian FSB said that a Ukrainian warship approached the Kerch Strait, thereby creating a "threat to the safety of navigation." What happened and how they reacted to it in Russia, the newspaper said ...
In Odessa, the Russian tanker Nika Spirit was arrested along with the documents seized during the search, said Anatoly Matios, the chief military prosecutor of Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities claim that in the fall of 2018 the tanker was known under a different name and blocked the Ukrainian ships Nikopol, Berdyansk and a tug ...
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to return to Ukraine the Ukrainian sailors captured in the Kerch Strait. He stated this during a briefing at the presidential administration of Ukraine on June 27, writes RBC. "I would like to…
By June 25, the Russian authorities should report to the UN Maritime Tribunal on the implementation of the court's order to return the captured Ukrainian sailors to their homeland. Such a decision was made by the tribunal on May 25. The meeting, which considered the claim of Ukraine against Russia in the Kerch incident, took place 10 ...
The UN International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on May 25 made a decision in which it ordered Russia to immediately release two Ukrainian warships and an auxiliary ship and 24 Ukrainian sailors captured near the Kerch Strait in November 2018 and allow them to return to ...
Lithuania has banned the entry of Russians involved in the aggression against Ukraine in the Kerch Strait. The sanctions will affect those persons who were directly involved in the detention of three Ukrainian ships, writes “Observer”. During a meeting with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the head of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite stressed ...
More than two weeks have passed since the incident in the Kerch Strait. What is remarkable about this whole business is the amazing and large-scale unanimity in understanding what happened there. And pro-Kremlin journalists, and anti-Russian journalists, and journalists who express diametrically opposite ...
A group of Bellingcat journalists came to the conclusion that the Ukrainian ships attacked on November 25 by the ships of the Russian FSB border service near the Kerch Strait were fired upon in international waters. The journalists came to this conclusion after examining publicly available photos and videos of the consequences of the conflict ...
US President Donald Trump canceled a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which was supposed to take place in Argentina on the sidelines of the G20 summit. The reason for the cancellation was the situation with Ukrainian ships captured in the Kerch Strait, Trump explained on his Twitter microblog. "Based…
President Vladimir Putin for the first time commented on the events in the Kerch Strait, which led to a sharp escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He called the seizure of Ukrainian ships a minor incident and a provocation on the eve of the presidential elections, writes the BBC. “This is a provocation organized by the current government. Think,…