The Guardian: Putin refuses to release Ukrainian sailors and ships
Russian president says it is ‘too early’ in investigation to consider a prisoner swap and accuses Ukraine government of provocation
Vladimir Putin has said it is “too early” to return Ukrainian sailors and naval vessels seized by Russia in the Sea of Azov, accusing the Ukrainian government of provoking an incident as a distraction from domestic problems.
Putin was speaking to reporters after the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, where Donald Trump cancelled a meeting with the Russian leader because of Moscow’s refusal to release the 24 Ukrainians. The Russian president said it was necessary to detain the captives while a legal case was put together to demonstrate that the three Ukrainian naval vessels violated Russia’s territorial waters. He said the ships’ logs would show that their attempt to cross the Kerch strait from the Black Sea into the Sea of Azov – enclosed by Russia, the Crimean peninsula and mainland Ukraine – was a deliberate provocation.
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3 comments:
Democrats and Russia.
Russian could invade 7 neighboring and the Democrats would do nothing more than a few stump speeches before voters, in the Well of the House, or during a presser.
They will throw a few sanctions on Russia and after cutting the military, they will increment the budget a little.
In the meantime they investigate Trump to gain and consolidate political power at home.
That is it. That is all.
Oh and once the run Trump out of town, they might have a problem with China. That is the Democrats who are not bought and paid for by China.
Why should Putin release them? Poroshenko went out of his way to provoke a fight with Russia. Did he expect western Europeans to sacrifice their interests and risk the lives of their citizens to enable their stupidity? Did they expect Donald Trump to risk American lives and sacrifice American intersts to enable their stupidity?
Mr. Trump's wife whom he loves very much is of Eastern European descent. His judgement may be being clouded because of this.
Russia has been stealing oil off the coast of Odessa, Ukrainian territory since the break up.
Russia is at fault here.
China looked how Russia was stealing oil in the Black Sea and saw the international community was doing nothing and so this emboldened the Chinese.
Perhaps pretend accountant knows not, where Odessa is?
Hint, we are not talking about the one in Texas.
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