A Russian warship fired warning shots at the British destroyer Defender, which entered Russian territorial waters in the Black Sea, and a Russian warplane dropped bombs on its way. This was reported by Interfax, citing a statement from the Ministry of Defense in Moscow today, quoted by Reuters.
Shortly after the incident, the ship “Defender” left Russian territorial waters after entering three kilometers inland, the ministry said.
At 11:52 a.m. (coinciding with Bulgarian time) on June 23, the British Navy’s Defender destroyer, operating in the northwestern Black Sea, crossed the state border of the Russian Federation and entered its territorial waters near Cape Fiolent. (on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea occupied by Moscow in 2014) three kilometers inland, “the Russian Defense Ministry was quoted as saying by TASS.
“At 12.06 and 12.08 a border guard ship fired warning shots. At 12.19 a Su-24 aircraft carried out a warning bombing on the course of the British destroyer” Defender “, the agency said.
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