Is Ukraine a country that enjoys shooting itself in the foot?
Yes, they do. They also love the taste of foot. I suspect they suffer from Restless Foot Syndrome and have to shoot themselves in the foot in order to be able to catch the then wounded foot and stuff it in their mouth.
Russia seizing their naval ships demands a response, or they should just surrender and turn over the country to Russia. Some provocations cannot be glossed over. Russia clearly intended it so. And no Ukraine is stuck between a rock and a hard place: escalate tensions and risk war or ignore the provocation and risk internal crisis and escalating external provocations. Probably the best bet is to play hardball and pray that other nations quickly step in to back them up.
Every year at this time something happens. Its budget time... we and others will as usual send them money now.
The Ukrainians are not unfamiliar with this sort of thing. My great grandparents escaped their sizable farm in the Ukraine back in the 1930s just before the Russians went through and pillaged it. This is been going on for centuries, and neither side is ever completely victorious.
Is Ukraine a country that enjoys shooting itself in the foot?
Is Russia a country that enjoys shooting Ukrainians? Apparently, yes.