Defence Minister Poltorak and Defence Secretary @GavinWilliamson receiving a briefing on board HMS Echo while in Odesa. 🇬🇧🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/uOufGPWbNX— Judith Gough (@JudithGoughFCO) December 21, 2018
Zero Hedge: Ukrainian Official Urges UK Navy To Cross Kerch Strait "To See How Russia Reacts"
Despite relative calm ensuing in the area of the dangerous Nov. 25 Kerch Strait incident, Ukrainian officials have continued making media statements suggesting escalation could still yet be on the horizon. On Friday a deputy minister in Kiev urged the British Navy to send a warship to the Sea of Azov to test Russia’s response. The appeal came at a moment when the UK Secretary of State for Defence Gavin Williamson met with Ukrainian officials to reiterate that "The UK is a steadfast partner to Ukraine as it faces illegal acts of aggression on its sovereign territory," according to a statement, and as an unarmed UK surveillance ship, the HMS Echo, is deployed to the Black Sea.
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WNU Editor: The British warship HMS Echo is currently in the Black Sea. Making it do the "dirty work" of the Ukraine government to see "how Russia will react" is not how you defuse tensions in this part of the world.
6 comments:
Putin does plenty of dirty work.
Funny but the virtue signalling birds with all their colorful plumage say nothing much when a Russian journalist is murdered.
They only come out of the woodwork to scold a minor power.
Is sailing through the straight Kerch dirty work?
How about the straights of Tirana? The Brits did that and took a mine that damaged a ship. The Albanians were so kind.
It their international maritime law and then there is Russian maritime law?
Ukraine should never have given up its nukes.
"Ukraine never should have given up its nukes." On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, the current government is pathologically insane. They should have been shown the door long, long ago.
As a Brit, I would trust a McDonalds shift manager to be Defence Secretary, far more than the appalling Williamson. The man cannot open his mouth without inviting scorn. He's no towering statesman, that's for sure.
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