Russian forces fire warning shots at UK destroyer HMS Defender over territorial encroachment in Black Sea
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.
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.
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