The incident occurred when the Vyshgorod and Akkerman small armored artillery boats (MBAK) were heading to the firing area, simultaneously practicing the stages of combat training. The Russian side was warned about the exercises in advance.
“Russian ships have appeared. Crews [МБАК] understood that these tactical exercises would also not do without provocations from the coast guard ships of the FSB of the Russian Federation. […] To make it harder for FSB officers to listen to communications between ships, Ukrainian sailors are switching to an international standard for radio exchange, “the message says.
The Ukrainian military argue that this situation is problematic for the Russian military due to the fact that they mostly do not speak English and do not know the protocols and signals of the Media Transfer Protocol system.
“The Russians sent three FSB ships to the declared area of the firing to monitor the actions of the Ukrainians. One of them acted quite provocatively: he went straight to the course of the Ukrainian Navy boats, trying to force them to maneuver and deviate from the course, ignored all warnings from the boat commander. that the Ukrainian artillery boats are rapidly approaching, the FSB officers got in touch and transmitted by radio that they understood the warnings and would fulfill the requirement to leave the area of the exercise, “said in ArmiaInform.
The Ukrainian military noted that “the enemy ship retreated to a safe distance and continued to observe” how 10 Ukrainian boats practice episodes of naval combat with surface ships and artillery fire from 30 mm combat modules.
In the spring of 2014, Russia occupied Crimea after illegal referendum… The accession of the peninsula to the Russian Federation is not recognized by Ukraine and most countries of the world. At the moment, there is a checkpoint regime between mainland Ukraine and Crimea, and Kiev de facto does not control the peninsula.
After that, Russia began to build up military forces in the Azov and Black Seas.
Former Minister of Defense of Ukraine, ex-Prime Minister and former Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Yevhen Marchuk noted in April that on the part of the coast of the Sea of Azov, which remained under the control of Ukraine, there are “about seven dangerous landing sites”.
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