"Demand is not enough": Ukraine has asked the West a powerful response to Putin's actions

This is what the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Pavlo Klimkin, told the annual conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the OSCE Member States in Milan, writes DW

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Klimkin pointed out that the OSCE Ministerial Conference for the fifth year in a row was taking place in the context of Russia's "destabilizing behavior". According to him, it is a serious threat to European security.

The United Nations must take charge of an international response to Russia's actions. [196459009] – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine also urged the OSCE countries to jointly request the release of Ukrainian sailors arrested by the Russian coastguards in the Kerch Strait.

"Russia has turned Crimea into a military base and the militarization of occupation the expanding peninsula compromises the stability of the entire Black Sea and Mediterranean regions," said the Minister .

The publication notes that the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, criticized the "behavior of Ukraine" in Milan. He referred to the "crisis of confidence in Atlantic Europe" which he described as "reckless enlargement of NATO" and "illegitimate sanctions imposed by fictitious actuaries".

In a nutshell, the head of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, had stated that [19659010] The Ukrainian consuls and Moscow visited three wounded sailors from the Ukrainian Navy who had been captured by Russian security forces in the Kerch Strait. According to him, henceforth the consuls will send each day to the Ukrainian prisoners to monitor their condition

What do we know about the events that occurred in the Kerch Strait? On November 25, the Russian border ship lying in the Kerch Strait struck the tug of the Ukrainian army. It is known that two small armored Ukrainian artillery boats and raids were conducted in accordance with international standards, from the port of Odessa to the port of Mariupol

However, Russia said that Ukrainian warships allegedly illegally entered the temporarily closed waters of the Russian Sea. and continued their movement towards the Kerch Strait.

A group of Ukrainian ships continued their journey to Mariupol. However, during the withdrawal from the Kerch Strait, Russian border ships opened fire on Ukrainian ships, injuring six Ukrainian soldiers. Russia also captured two Ukrainian ships and 24 Ukrainian sailors, who were later arrested in occupied Crimea and taken to SIZO Moscow.

Ukraine then introduced a military state in the 10 regions until December 26th. In addition, on November 30, Ukraine banned the entry into its territory of Russian citizens aged 16 to 60 years.

Russia is no longer the first month of blocking foreign vessels going to the Ukrainian ports of the Azov Sea. For this reason, the Ukrainian economy suffers considerable losses.