Moscow. June 23. INTERFAX-The British destroyer Defender ("Defender") provoked the Russian military and border guards to a warning fire, entering the territorial sea of the Russian Federation near Cape Fiolent (Crimea), the former commander of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, told Interfax.
"The question to the British sailors is why are you staging a provocation?" Komoyedov said.
"The British have entered our territorial waters. Fiolent is the Crimea. The British had no right to act like this, " Komoyedov said.
"At first, according to practice, the British were warned several times through the international channel that they were violating the territorial waters of Russia, going the wrong course. They were asked to change course, they did not. Our border guards and the military had every right to open a warning fire, " the admiral said.
"In general, this is not done - I'm talking about the British. At sea, we must respect each other, " Komoyedov said.
The Russian military and border guards opened a warning fire on the course of the British destroyer Defender, which entered the territorial sea of the Russian Federation in the Black Sea near Cape Fiolent, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
"The destroyer was previously warned about the use of weapons in case of violation of the state border of the Russian Federation. He did not respond to the warning," the Russian Defense Ministry stressed.
"At 11.52 on June 23, this year, the destroyer URO Defender of the British Navy, operating in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, crossed the state border of the Russian Federation and entered the territorial sea near Cape Fiolent for three kilometers," the Russian Defense Ministry said.
At 12:06 and 12:08, the border patrol ship fired a warning shot. At 12: 19, the Su-24M bomber performed a warning bombing (4 OFAB-250) on the course of the destroyer URO "Defender", the military said.
"At 12:23, the joint actions of the Black Sea Fleet and the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, the destroyer URO Defender left the borders of the territorial sea of the Russian Federation," the report says.
"The Black Sea Fleet, together with the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, stopped the violation of the Russian state border by the British Navy's URO destroyer Defender, "the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
The British military attache in Moscow was summoned to the Russian Defense Ministry because of the incident with a British destroyer in the Black Sea, the Russian military department reported.
On June 14, the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation reported that the Russian navy began tracking the actions of the destroyer" Defender "of the British Navy and the frigate URO" Everton " of the Dutch Navy, which entered the Black Sea.
Since the beginning of the crisis in eastern Ukraine, ships of the US Navy and other NATO countries have regularly entered the Black Sea.
