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Donald Trump has threatened to abandon the planned meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit, to be held in Argentina from November 30 to December 1. The President of the United States explained his position by aggravating relations between Moscow and Kiev after the incident in the Kerch Strait.
"I do not like this aggression," Trump said in an interview with the Washington Post, published Tuesday, November 27. He added that he was awaiting an incident report from his national security advisor, after which he would make a decision.
In July 2018, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held talks in Helsinki. The parties discussed the alleged intervention of Russia in the 2016 US presidential election, the situation in Syria and east of Ukraine, relations with China, trade conflicts and nuclear arsenals of the two States. Earlier, Putin and Trump met twice – at the G20 summit in Hamburg and at the APEC summit in Vietnam in 2017.
Sarah Sanders, White House press secretary, said on the eve that Trump had bilateral talks with Putin.
The Ukrainian Navy announced the seizure of three Russian ships
On 25 November, Ukrainian naval forces announced that Russian special forces had captured two Ukrainian boats and a tug on the approach to the Kerch Strait and had injured the Ukrainian army. According to the Russian FSB, the Berdyansk, Nikopol and Yany Kapu vessels, which followed Odessa to Mariupol, were arrested for "crossing the Russian Federation border" and "illegally entering the temporarily closed area of the territorial sea". From Russia.
Russia in 2014 annexed the Ukrainian peninsula and considers Crimea as its territory. Kiev and most countries of the world do not recognize the annexation of Ukrainian territory. According to international experts, Ukraine has the unrestricted right to transit through the Kerch Strait. NATO condemned the actions of Russia and the United States, the European Union, Germany and France have expressed concern about the incident in the Strait.
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