MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th November, 2018) Three ships of the Ukrainian Navy were detained after violating Russian state border, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Sunday.
"The vessels of the Ukrainian Navy � Berdyansk, Nikopol and Yany Kapu, � which violated the state border of Russia this morning, made another attempt of illegal actions within Russia's sea area at 19.00 [local time, 16.00 GMT] on November 25. ... To forcibly stop the Ukrainian warships, weapons were used. As a result, all three vessels of the Ukrainian Navy were detained in Russia's territorial waters in the Black Sea," the FSB said.
The legal requirements of the accompanying ships and boats of the border guards of the FSB and Russia's Black Sea Fleet were ignored by the Ukrainian ships, they made dangerous maneuvering, it noted.
"Three wounded servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces received medical assistance. There is no threat to their lives," the FSB said.
A criminal case has been initiated into the violation of the Russian state border, it added.
"It should be noted that the Ukrainian side is aware of the procedure for the passage of warships through the territorial sea of Russia and along the Kerch-Yenikale canal. They have previously used this order to carry out a peaceful passage," the FSB stressed.
Earlier in the day, three ships of the Ukrainian Navy, in violation of Articles 19 and 21 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, crossed the Russian sea border, entered the temporarily closed area of the Russian territorial waters and were moving from the Black Sea toward the Kerch Strait, according to the FSB. Another group of ships was heading for the Kerch Strait from the Azov Sea port of Berdyans'k. The Kerch Strait, which links Black and Azov seas, was closed on Sunday for civilian ships for security reasons.
