[D66] [JD: 123] Russian forces fire warning shots at UK destroyer HMS Defender over territorial encroachment in Black Sea | WSWS

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  Russian forces fire warning shots at UK destroyer HMS Defender over
  territorial encroachment in Black Sea

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A Russian patrol ship fired a warning shot yesterday at the British
destroyer HMS Defender off the coast of Crimea. This was followed by the
dropping of high-explosive OFAB-250s fragmentation bombs in the path of
the UK vessel.

According to Russia’s defence ministry, HMS Defender made a 3-kilometre
incursion into Russia's territorial waters off Cape Fiolent in the south
of Crimea. Crimea, a peninsula in the Black Sea, was annexed by Russia
in March 2014, following a US-backed far-right coup in Kiev, the capital
of Ukraine.

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