Will Trump let Russia take the Azov Sea?
By Alexander Vershbow November 28 at 1:45 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/11/28/will-trump-let-russia-take-azov-sea/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.00f2879f3d85
Russia’s illegal blockade and closure of the Kerch Strait on Sunday and its violent seizure of three Ukrainian ships are clear violations of international law and of bilateral Ukrainian-Russian agreements. Unlike the Russians’ 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea and their undeclared war in Eastern Ukraine, this was not an ambiguous, deniable attack by “little green men” without insignias; it was a direct act of aggression by Russia’s navy and security services against a sovereign state that was acting within its rights in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, whose waters are shared by Russia and Ukraine. These actions can only be seen as premeditated actions aimed at destabilizing Ukraine in the run-up to Ukraine’s 2019 elections and crippling its economy.
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Other Russian actions look ominous in retrospect. In recent months, Moscow has launched incessant artillery and rocket attacks by Russian-led forces on Ukrainian military and civilian targets along the line of contact with occupied Donbas.
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Гьобелс май трябва да минава на тревна диета?