The true purpose of the Ukrainian provocation in the Kerch Strait has been revealed
The Ukrainian authorities hoped that the Russian border guards would destroy the three Ukrainian Navy vessels that they sent to the Kerch Strait, because this is exactly how the Ukrainian border guards behaved towards Turkish poachers.
The famous Crimean social activist Alexander Talipov came to this conclusion. As “unconditional evidence,” he posted on his Facebook footage of the incident in the area of Zmeiny Island in 2000, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The calculation was simple: Russian border guards were supposed to destroy Ukrainian boats. I managed to get footage from 2000, when, not far from Zmeiny Island, ships of the Sevastopol and Odessa naval forces of the Ukrainian border troops sank one and detained three Turkish schooners engaged in illegal flounder fishing. The vessels were in the exclusive maritime economic zone, about 20 miles from the coast,” Talipov wrote.
He believes that the 18-year-old’s event exactly repeats the situation in the Kerch Strait.
“Here you have maneuvers to get away from patrol ships, and the famous pile-up, and pursuit, and warning fire and lethal fire. Only now the Ukrainian border guards have acted as “Turkish poachers,” writes Talipov.
According to him, the calculation was that the legislation of Ukraine and Russia on border issues is similar.
“Actions are prescribed in the regulations of the border service, in particular, the mechanism for using weapons is clearly stated. Lethal fire is opened on violators who try to escape! This was the expectation of the Ukrainian command; the military was instructed how to act, under no circumstances comply with the demands of the Russian border guards, commit a provocation and leave.
The team was just selected from the “patriot”, one sings the Ukrainian anthem well, the second invented a new tactic for fighting the Russian navy, two more previously served in Sevastopol and poured sand and cement into the engines of ships in the Crimean spring. But relying on patriotism and the desire to die in the name of the Ukrainian government did not work; at the first shots, the warriors surrendered,” summed up Talipov.
As PolitNavigator reported earlier about the 2000 incident recalled the former Minister of Transport of Crimea Anatoly Tsurkin. At the same time, he emphasized that the Russian side is treating the detained Ukrainian sailors who were on board the warships that staged the provocation on November 25 very humanely.
According to Ukrainian media, in 2000, Ukrainian border guards opened fire on the Turkish schooner Yaram Akhmet, as a result of which it was sunk.
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.