UK Ministry Of Defence Rejects Russian Claims About Incident With HMS Dragon Near Crimea
Muhammad Irfan Published May 28, 2021 | 06:30 AM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 28th May, 2021) The UK Ministry of Defence has rejected Russian claims that its HMS Dragon destroyer was involved in any incidents near Crimea in October.
Earlier this week, Vladimir Kulishov, the head of the border service and the first deputy chief of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), told Sputnik that on October 13, HMS Dragon illegally entered the Russian territorial waters near the Crimean Peninsula. According to Kulishov, in response to the demand to leave the Russian waters, the vessel's captain reported about communications problems. The UK military ship was pushed to the neutral waters by the joint efforts of the Russian Navy and Aerospace Forces.
"The Russian Federation Navy did not impede HMS Dragon's passage. She navigated without incident, exercising our right of innocent passage under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea," a representative of the UK Ministry of Defence told The Telegraph.
The representative added that the vessel was heading from the Ukrainian port of Odessa to Georgia's Batumi through the waters that the UK refuses to recognize as Russian ones as London does not recognize the Crimean Peninsula as a part of Russia.
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