UK to send warships to Black Sea amid rising tensions between Ukraine and Russia

Senior British officials have reported that UK to send two warships in May from the Royal Navy to the Black Sea given the rising tensions between Ukraine and Russia, according to the newspaper The Sunday Times.

In addition to ships, planes and submarines will also support ships in the event of a threat from Russian forces according to the report presented by the British newspaper.

A Type 45 destroyer armed with anti-aircraft missiles Yes a type 23 anti-submarine frigate they will leave the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean Aircraft Carrier Task Force and cross the Bosporus to the Black Sea, according to the report.

Also they F-35B Lightning stealth aircraft of the RAF and the Merlin helicopters for fighter submarines will be prepared in the flagship of the task force, the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, to support warships in the Black Sea, added the Time.

A spokesperson for the British Ministry of Defense told the newspaper that his country and its international allies wanted show your “unwavering” support for Ukraine.

Ukrainian authorities have criticized in recent days Russia for him deployment of the army in an area close to the common border, which was rejected from Moscow, which maintains that it can move its soldiers on its territory.

Faced with this, international leaders have shown their concern such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, who demanded that the Russian government withdraw its military troops from the border with Ukraine.

The last episode in the long conflict between Ukraine and Russia since 2014 took place this Saturday when the two countries exchanged the expulsion of two high-level diplomats.

Since the beginning of the year, this conflict with the separatists has seen a new outbreak that has resulted in dozens of deaths Yes Kiev accuses Russia of wanting to “destroy” it. The Kremlin, for its part, assured that it “did not threaten anyone”, while denouncing the Ukrainian “provocations”.

In turn, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski, who was received in Paris on Friday by French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said he hoped for the resumption of the truce in the war in the east of his country this week. next, while calling for a peace summit with Moscow with Franco-German mediation.

This worsening of the conflict in eastern Ukraine has deepened the diplomatic crisis between Russia and the United States, with respective expulsions of diplomats and sanctions, imitated by other European countries such as Poland or the Czech Republic. .

(With information from Europa Press and AFP)

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