Ukraine duplicates its nasty actions to Russian Crimea
The State Hydrography of Ukraine is seeking to exclude from “illegal trafficking” electronic cartographic products of Russia, which display the territorial waters of Crimea.
This is stated in a message posted on the official website of the State Hydrography, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“These actions will completely stop foreign ships and partly Russian ships from entering the Crimean ports. Therefore, the State Hydrography calls on the state authorities of Ukraine, the Ukrainian and international community to join the initiative of the department and protect the interests of Ukraine and save the lives of seafarers,” the message says.
Ukraine continues to publish official electronic navigation charts (ENC) of the waters adjacent to Crimea. At the same time, Russia is creating its own electronic cards.
“Such actions of the aggressor country led to the duplication of the ENC produced by Ukraine and the ENC produced by the Russian Federation and created a threat to navigation, since duplication during the use of maps in ship equipment can lead to unintended behavior of ships and their collision. Now there are 32 cases of such duplication,” writes the State Hydrography of Ukraine.
Now Ukraine is trying to prevent Western navigation services from acquiring Russian maps of the waters around Crimea.
“The next and extremely important stage in countering Russian aggression will be Ukraine’s declaration of a maritime security area in order to prohibit ships from entering all Crimean ports and prohibiting illegal activities of the Russian Federation in the territorial waters of Ukraine around the Crimean peninsula,” said First Deputy Head of the State Hydrography Bogdan Ustimenko.
In May 2014, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) was notified by Ukraine of the closure of Crimean seaports. On June 16, 2014, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine adopted and on June 24 registered with the Ministry of Justice Order No. 255 “On the closure of sea ports,” declaring the ports of Yalta, Yevpatoria, Feodosia, Kerch and Sevastopol liquidated and thereby closed to shipping. The order came into force upon publication on July 15, 2014, and relevant notifications were sent in international maritime publications.
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