The Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday that its forces destroyed a US-made military boat carrying a Ukrainian assault team near Snake Island in the northern Black Sea.
The ministry identified the boat as a Sea Force, a patrol boat made by Willard Marine, an American company based in California. Earlier on Tuesday, Russia said that it destroyed a Ukrainian sea drone that approached Russian gas facilities in the Black Sea.
The war between Russia and Ukraine has escalated in the Black Sea since Russia withdrew from the grain deal that facilitated exports from Ukraine’s ports. Moscow chose not to renew the deal because it was unhappy with Western efforts to facilitate the export of Russian agricultural goods, and said it would rejoin if its demands were met.
Since the grain deal fell apart, Russia stepped up its bombardment of Ukrainian ports, and Ukraine declared war on Russian shipping. Incidents in the Black Sea have included a Ukrainian attack on a Russian tanker and Russian forces boarding a commercial vessel.
On Monday, a Ukrainian official said Ukraine might try a new Black Sea corridor after a ship that left the port of Odessa successfully made it to Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait. The ship stayed close to the coast of NATO members Romania and Bulgaria while making the transit.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the US was considering options, including “military solutions,” to protect Ukrainian shipments from Danube River ports as an alternative to the grain deal.
Moscow publishes footage of attack on Ukrainian military speedboat (VIDEO)
“assault team” “snake island” “sea force” “military solutions”
man you couldn’t make all this sh*t up
Yes, it was a pretty shot of SU30 destroying American boat with a cannon but not really as important news as Kremlin disabling Pentagon satellites over Ukraine
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Any source for that claim? Not seeing it on e.g. RT.
Me neither, so far at least.
Does the US consider anything other than military options?
(trick question)
It didn’t “fall apart,” writers should wean themselves of that faulty description. That sounds like both sides tried but couldn’t make it happen for some inscrutable reason. No. It was IGNORED by Biden.
The Biden WH had promised to let Russia use SWIFT again and do more trade, but none of this was done. Meanwhile Ukraine got its part of the deal. And could also use the returning ships to transport military supplies to Ukraine. And the sea lanes were used to launch drone attacks against Crimea.
The Kiev regime is absolutely obsessed with attacking the people in Crimea. From cutting off their electricity, their water supply, their wheat imports, and depriving the old people of their pensions, to this. The Crimeans are Russians and prospered in 2015 while Ukraine’s economy sank like a rock, and that can’t be forgiven.