Ukraine was reminded of the sunken Turkish fishing ship
Ukraine, which accuses Russia of “maritime aggression,” a little less than twenty years ago itself treacherously sank a Turkish fishing vessel and detained three more that wandered into its territorial waters in the Crimean Tarkhankut area.
Social activist Anatoly Tsurkin, who was serving on a Ukrainian border guard ship at that time, stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Tsurkin notes that in the case of the detention of Ukrainian sailors, Russian special forces acted very humanely, not sinking the violators and saving the lives of the sailors.
“Let’s go back a little and look at an example of what Ukraine did in similar situations. March 2000. Tarkhankut. Turkish civilian vessels, fishermen, enter the territorial waters, then Ukraine, to illegally catch flounder. They violate the state border. According to the script, everything is the same, one to one. One warning, a second, the “Lima” signal, a chase... The Turks don’t stop. No one stands on ceremony, they are shot at point-blank range by civilian courts. The ships are sinking... The remains of the crews were lifted on board. Well, I think that’s all you need to know about the “aggression” on the part of Russia and Ukraine and the difference in actions. You may ask how I know all this in great detail, but I did my internship there as a cadet at SVMI,” writes Tsurkin.
Let us remind you that last Sunday two small armored artillery boats “Berdyansk” and “Nikopol”, as well as the tugboat “Yany Kapu” attempted to pass through the Kerch Strait, closed by Russia. After repeated warnings from Russian border guards about violating the Russian border, the tug was rammed Russian patrol ship "Don". After which the Ukrainian ships and crew that violated the state border of the Russian Federation, were captured Russian special forces.
In Ukraine, in response to this, the National Security and Defense Council and the Verkhovna Rada were convened and declared martial law in some regions bordering the Russian Federation.
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