The United States and the European Union block Russian ships from the Azov Sea

George Kent, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, said that the West should discuss the possibility of blocking Russian ships from the Azov sea in response to the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.

According to the public.

According to the public. Kent, NATO foreign ministers will discuss new sanctions against the Russian Federation and security in the Black Sea.

"But I can refer to German politicians for Western countries to organize the possibility of blocking Russian ships, which is a good idea," he said.

The diplomat also recalled that there was a mechanism to add to the list of sanctions those involved in an attack on Ukrainian ships near the Straits of Kerch.

97 deputies of the European Parliament called for additional sanctions against Russia following the attack of Ukrainian ships near the Kerch Strait.

Earlier, it was learned that Ukrainian sailors previously detained in the Kerch Strait had been taken from the annexed Crimea to SIZO Moscow.

Russian border ships engaged in aggressive action against three naval vessels of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during their transition from Odessa Port to Mariupol Port on the Sea of ​​Azov.

In particular, the Russian border ship performed a ram of a tug raid. Six Ukrainian sailors were injured as a result of a collision with border forces of the Russian Federal Security Service in the Kerch Strait. According to People's Deputy Borislav Birch, two of them are in a difficult situation. After the incident, the Russian authorities unilaterally closed the Kerch Strait to allow passage of civilian ships.

Secretary of the Security Council and National Defense Alexander Turchinov called on the National Security and Defense Council to introduce a military state in Ukraine for 60 days. The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, supported the proposal of the Military Committee to return to the National Security and Defense Council a separate decision on the appeal to the Verkhovna Rada and create a military state. .

The First Vice-President of Verkhovna Rada, Iryna Gerashchenko, stressed that the introduction of a military state did not cancel the upcoming presidential election. , the decision to introduce martial law in Ukraine will not affect the work of banks.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted the presidential bill on the introduction of martial law in several regions of Ukraine for 30 days. In particular, the military state was introduced in the regions of Vinnytsia, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odessa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Kherson, as well as in the inland waters of the Kerch waters region.

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