The British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender in the port of Odessa, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Russia said it fired warning shots at the warship Wednesday when it entered territorial waters off Crimea.
MOSCOW The British Defence Ministry has denied a claim that a Russian vessel fired warning shots at a Royal Navy warship approaching the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea Wednesday. Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that a warplane had also dropped four bombs in the path of the British destroyer, HMS Defender, to force it to change course. No warning shots have been fired at HMS Defender, the British Defence Ministry tweeted, saying the warship was conducting innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters in accordance with international law.
Russiaâs borders are securely guarded, Sergei Aksyonov said
YALTA, June 24. /TASS/. Wednesday’s incident with the British destroyer off Cape Fiolent, Crimea, has proved that Crimea is an unassailable fortress, Crimea’s head, Sergei Aksyonov, told TASS on Wednesday. It was a right step to make warming shots. They gave to understand that Crimea is a fortress. Russia’s borders are securely guarded. We see that both Russia’s armed forces and the Federal Security Service’s Crimean department - all are ready to do their job, he said.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Russian defense ministry said that the Black Sea Fleet, acting in cooperation with the border guard force of the federal security service FSB, stopped a violation of the state border by the destroyer HMS Defender off Crimea s Cape Fiolent. The destroyer ventured three kilometers into Russia s territorial waters. A border guard patrol ship fired warning shots and a Sukhoi-24M bomber dropped bombs ahead of the des
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Russia s Black Sea Fleet and Federal Security Service have expelled a British warship that violated the country s territorial waters, the Russian Defense Ministry s Zvezda broadcasting service reported on Wednesday.
The British destroyer HMS Defender crossed Russia s border in the northwestern part of the Black Sea at 11:52 a.m. Moscow time (0852 GMT) after going 3 km beyond the sea border in the area of Cape Fiolent, it said.
The British vessel ignored warnings on the possible use of weapons from the Russian side, causing a Russian border patrol ship to fire warning shots, it added.
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