When Russia announced that they were going to build a causeway and bridge across the strait, before they even broke ground, Ukraine swore they'd blow up portions of it. Given that fact, Russia didn't change any rules, they just put a couple of small ships in the area to patrol both sides of the causeway. They also instituted patrols that travel back and forth across the bridge looking for small boats and divers in the waters around the causeway.
The three ships that were stopped are the first ones from Ukraine that didn't obey the rules. Given the fact that a very small lighter carrying supplies to a Burke class destroyer blew the destroyer nearly in half, any country concerned about attacks on a ship, bridge, or causeway, would have done the same thing Russia did which is stop any vessel that has not followed the rules and refused to halt or even respond to radio inquires from the Russian patrol vessels.
Be careful about your double standards.
President Trump announced he is nixing a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Argentina on Saturday, in the wake of the seizure of Ukrainian ships and crews in the Black Sea by Russia.
“Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to Ukraine from Russia, I have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting in Argentina with President Vladimir Putin,” he tweeted Thursday.
“I look forward to a meaningful Summit again as soon as this situation is resolved!” he added.
Trump had told The Washington Post Tuesday that he may not meet with Putin in Buenos Aires after Russian forces fired on Ukrainian naval vessels and seized their crews as they were sailing through the Kerch Strait, near Crimea.
“I am getting a report on that tonight and that will determine what happens at the meeting,” Trump said. “I’m getting a full report on that tonight. That will be very determinative. Maybe I won’t have the meeting. Maybe I won’t even have the meeting. We’re going to see, depending on what comes out tonight.”
He later told the Post that “I don’t like that aggression.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-cancels-meeting-at-g20-with-putin-over-ukraine-tensions
Euromaidan is the Deep State regime change op. Whatever they claim, the opposite is most likely to be true.
The bottom line is that Russia wants Ukraine back.
Who has he right? The one who has the biggest guns and the will to use them.
Thank you for posting! Some inconvenient facts manage to get the Putin fanboys on these boards all revved up.
They all look alike to me.