“This sounds so laughable. I think it’s the world’s first case when someone has ‘pirated’ a navy. Usually, they pirate merachant ships, while navies are expected to defend themselves, you know.”
Actually, there is nothing funny about it at all. The Ukrainian naval bases and ships were blockaded, besieged, and seized by Russian marines, Russian soldiers, and Russian rioters, all of whom were acting in violation of the laws of war by failing to be lawful combatants in distinctive uniforms as required by the Hague Convention. By doing so, they were in fact acting as pirates under Russian command. Such acts of piracy under Russian command qualifies this event as an act of state terrorismand subversion by Russia.
Even if it’s so, but still - the Russian military’s involvement isn’t a proven fact, the Ukrainian military and government have showed up as totally dysfunctional, so their calling their opponents “pirates” in a try to explain their failure is rightfully causing laugh. As with any kind of failure.