Russia summons UK envoy over warship intrusion

The Russian Foreign Ministry has summoned UK Ambassador Deborah Bronnert and strongly protested against the violation by a British warship of Moscow’s territorial waters in the Black Sea.

The Ministry in a statement on Thursday denounced the provocative and dangerous actions of the UK Navy destroyer HMS Defender in Russia’s territorial waters on Wednesday, which went against the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, reports Xinhua news agency.

If such provocations happen again, all responsibility for their possible consequences will rest entirely on the British side, the Ministry warned.

According to the Defence Ministry in Moscow, the warship crossed the Russian border in the northwestern part of the Black Sea at 11.52 a.m. on Wednesday after going 3 km beyond the sea border in the area of Cape Fiolent, and Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Su-24M aircraft carried out warning bombing along the path of the destroyer.

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