Russian Navy's Project 22160 Patrol Vessel Dmitriy Rogachev 375 sails through the Bosphorus Strait on the way to the Black Sea past Istanbul's Suleymaniye mosque in the backround on 16 February 2022 (AFP)
Ukrinform: Turkey bans passage of Russian warships to Black Sea - Zelensky
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi broke the news on Instagram, Ukrinform reports.
The president thanked his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish people for their strong support of Ukraine.
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Update: Turkey agrees to ban passage of Russian ships to Black Sea - Zelensky (TASS)
WNU Editor: Turkey is saying there is no ban .... Turkey has not closed Black Sea to Russian warships: Official (Daily Sabah). More here .... Russia-Ukraine war: Turkey denies closing Black Sea to Russian warships (Middle East Eye).
Here is an interesting read and why Turkey is in a legal bind .... What does the Montreux accord say about closing Black Sea access to Russia? (TRT World).
According to this, they did.
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Turkey is obviously "thinking about it." Before the invasion such a thought would've been unthinkable on their part.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note, prior to this western Europeans perhaps disliked Russians. They held us Americans in utter contempt and should calamity befall us many of them would've celebrated. Has this situation rehabilitated our image? If so, we'd have Russia and Vladimir Putin to thank for it.