Putin restored the chronology of the Ukrainian provocation
The conflict with Ukrainian Navy boats near the Kerch Strait is a new link in the chain of provocations that Kyiv began in the spring of 2018, when it captured the Crimean seiner Nord with fishermen on board.
President Vladimir Putin stated this at the GXNUMX summit, answering a question about the fate of the Navy sailors who surrendered, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“As for the return of ships and sailors. Remember the fishermen who were captured in the Sea of Azov without any reason. The 2003 treaty suggests that there is only a 5-kilometer zone as territorial waters. The rest of the sea is common, including for economic use. The fishermen were not in the 5 km zone. They took them, captured them, and they still keep the captain there. Without any reason. Just arbitrariness, and that's the end of it.
Here they resorted to obvious provocation. We let the ships through. Including the military. On September 11, a similar caravan of Ukrainian warships approached. They were given a pilot and escorted. And that’s it, they calmly went to Mariupol and Berdyansk. No problem. Here, instead of doing the same, they staged a provocation.
Although even after they entered our territorial sea, the border guards still told them: “if you go to Kerch, stop at the parking lot and take a pilot.” "No, we won't go there." And we went there right away. After this, the pushing began. Our border guards began to push them out of there. Although they said publicly many times that the bridge was going to be blown up. Well, what should our border guards do?
They do not comply with demands to stop. They began to flee into neutral waters. Border guards acted in accordance with orders and regulations.
This is how any border forces of any state would act if their border was violated so brazenly,” Putin concluded.
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