Posted on 07/25/2019 9:44:39 AM PDT by Mariner
MOSCOW (AP) — The Ukrainian Security Service said Thursday it had seized a Russian tanker in a Black Sea port, a move that could undermine an anticipated prisoner swap between the two countries.
The security service said it detained the Russian tanker in a Ukrainian port on Wednesday. Authorities said the tanker was used in a Russian operation to block Ukrainian vessels from sailing through the Kerch Strait in November.
The 10-member crew was allowed to disembark and leave Ukraine since they were not involved in November's incident, Russian human rights ombudswoman Tatyana Moskalkova said.
Russian ships fired on and seized Ukrainian vessels on Nov. 25 in the Kerch Strait, located between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Russia insisted the boats violated its territorial waters and detained the 24 Ukrainians onboard.
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But the move by the SBU, which is still led by an ally of former president Petro Poroshenko, could jeopardize that.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office did not have immediate comment on the incident. Russian officials protested the tanker's seizure, saying it would dampen the chances of the prisoner swap.
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They have no legal government as of today.
Chaos will ensue.
Poking the bear is not a good strategy................
Everyone seems to be grabbing someone’s tanker nowadays. What’s taking the Somalian pirates so long to grab one?
Saw a YouTube documentary a week or so ago how Russia has pretty much taken over Ukraine’s eastern territorial waters.
They won’t even let the fishermen through.
This is going to get messy.
They are kicking back they have a woman in the US Congress doing the dirty work
My first thought!
Next tanker I see on Stonewall Jackson Lake I’m gonna sieze!
Will demand a new side-by-side as ransom!
Ping
“Chaos will ensue. “
Wait for the calls for us to intervene.
Tanker Tanker who gets the next Tanker
The more you see his TV appearances the more he exposes himself for a clown he is.
Cheap populist stance against the old guard which is defiant and holding him in contempt although no analogy with Trump.
The guy is seemingly weak. He is a puppet and not really good at it.
He has zero experience is running anything.
The only thing presidential about him is playing a president in sitcom.
Electing a guy like that is an idiocracy of the highest order.
I don’t think the pirates will wake up from the water nap.
For helping launch a coup de tat against Trump, screw them.
Seal Team 7 took care of that a few years ago. Kind of took their joy out of pirating ships.
Seal Team 7 took care of that a few years ago. Kind of took their joy out of pirating ships.
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LOL! Excellent!
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