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<h1 class="reader-title">Russian forces fire warning shots at UK
destroyer HMS Defender over territorial encroachment in Black
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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