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The Russian Federation has asked the British government to investigate the dumping in Black Sea territorial waters of an English-flagged destroyer, on which a Russian fleet of ships and planes launched warning shots. The Kremlin summoned the British Ambassador to Moscow to explain the incident.

The diplomatic statement on what the government of Vladimir Putin called “Serious violation” of international standards is the chapter following the incident that has occurred in the last few hours, when The British destroyer HMS Defender was surprised in the waters of southern Crimea, territory annexed by Moscow in 2014.

For its part, London denied the fact. Through the Royal Navy, he maintained that HMS Defender is in the region for NATO maneuvers and “temporarily separated from the task force to carry out its own missions in the Black Sea”.

However, when the Russian Defense became aware of this action, it alleged a transgression in Russian territorial waters, issued warnings and dispatched a Su-24 aircraft and ships that fired warning shots.

“The destroyer received a warning” but “did not react”, prompting a “border patrol boat” and a Su-24M plane to fire “warning shots,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.

After this fact, the British ship then left Russian waters ending the incident, which lasted about twenty minutes around noon today.

From the beginning the British Navy assured that “no warning shot was fired against the ‘HMS Defender'”, which was “in Ukrainian territorial waters”, according to a tweet from the British Ministry of Defense.

Hours later, the Kremlin urged London to investigate the incident. “The dangerous actions of the British destroyer have been assessed by the Russian Defense Ministry as a flagrant violation of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea”the military entity said in a statement.

In addition, the department headed by Sergei Shoigu demanded a “thorough investigation into the actions of the destroyer’s crew Stand up for yourself to avoid similar incidents in the future. “

The diplomatic statement reported that the British destroyer “had violated Russia’s state border” and entered Russian territorial waters at a depth of three kilometers. “The crew did not react to the obvious warning signals corresponding to naval laws, which forced the coast guard vessel to fire warning shots,” he added.

The British Ministry of Defense again denied that the Russian Navy fired any shots. According to the British military entity, the Russian Navy carried out naval exercises, and this is what it communicated to the British Navy.