Kiev wants to discuss the standoff between Russia and Ukraine over the Kerch Strait at a meeting of Russian, Ukrainian, French and German officials in the so-called Normandy Four format on Monday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.
KIEV (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th November, 2018) Kiev wants to discuss the standoff between Russia and Ukraine over the Kerch Strait at a meeting of Russian, Ukrainian, French and German officials in the so-called Normandy Four format on Monday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.
On Sunday, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said that 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. The Ukrainian ships did not react to legal demands of the ships accompanying them and made dangerous maneuvers and were detained after violating Russian state border, according to the FSB.
"Our partners have worked hard to organize a Normandy Four meeting in Berlin. Even today, our partners and us will try to talk to Russia. The agenda includes Russian aggression in the Black Sea, peacekeepers in Donbas, release of political prisoners," Klimkin said on Twitter.
The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) earlier on Monday decided to impose martial law on the territory of Ukraine for a period of 60 days. The chief of the Ukrainian General Staff has ordered to put the country's armed forces on full combat alert.
