Kiev and the West have chosen the Sea of Azov as a place where Ukrainian provocations could promptly give results able to trigger an international scandal, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told Sputnik on Monday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th November, 2018) Kiev and the West have chosen the Sea of Azov as a place where Ukrainian provocations could promptly give results able to trigger an international scandal, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told Sputnik on Monday.
"Unfortunately, our worst fears have proved true: Kiev and the West have chosen the Sea of Azov as a region where Ukrainian provocative actions can promptly give results that are required in order to trigger an international scandal," Karasin said.
He added that Russia had requested an urgent meeting of UN Security Council members to discuss the situation in the Sea of Azov.
The meeting is tentatively scheduled for 16:00 GMT, Monday,
On Sunday, 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 Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).
The FSB later said that the same three ships of the Ukrainian Navy � Berdyansk, Nikopol and Yany Kapu � had been detained after violating Russian state border. The Ukrainian ships did not react to legal demands of the ships accompanying them and made dangerous maneuvers, the FSB noted.
