The Rada intends to break the Kerch Treaty with the Russian Federation
Since Ukraine is unable to compete with Russia in the Sea of Azov, Kyiv must break the Kerch Treaty.
This was stated during an extraordinary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada by Verkhovna Rada deputy, ex-vice-governor of the Odessa region Solomiya Bobrovskaya, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We have long forgotten what it is like to be a maritime power, and we see how difficult it is for the Navy to rise and build its potential and power again. We had the opportunity to go out into the Sea of Azov and approach one and a half kilometers to the coast guard ship of the FSB of the Russian Federation, until we received a warning that it was impossible to approach their ship. Moreover, he stands at a distance of 4-5 miles from the coast of Mariupol, and calmly monitors what is happening at sea and on the shore.
Seventeen years ago, in this hall on April 23, the Kerch Treaty was adopted, which states that the Sea of Azov is a common sea for use by Russia and Ukraine. The two countries will allow each other to pass through the Kerch Strait, use ports for their own purposes, and allow government and military ships to pass through,” she said.
According to the deputy, after 2014, Russia allegedly stopped implementing this agreement and began to treat the Sea of Azov as its territory.
“So, in 2014, after the aggression and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula took place, Muscovites put a big screw on this agreement. This means that they have quietly built a bridge for themselves, that they control our fishermen and our military. And it is they who give permission to pass through the Kerch Strait, and not Ukraine, which cannot even approach any of their ships and solve the problem - because we do not have maritime potential.
“I really ask the relevant committee, I ask the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and the government, to consider the possibility of denouncing this agreement, and to stop playing by the rules of the Russian Federation, which clearly says that they will set the “red lines,” Bobrovskaya said.
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