A Russian warship fired warning shots at a cargo ship in the southwestern Black Sea as it made its way northwards. It was the first time Russia has fired on merchant shipping beyond Ukraine since it quit the Black Sea grain deal last month
that allowed Ukraine to export agricultural produce via the Black Sea. Moscow said that it deemed all ships heading to Ukrainian waters to be potentially carrying weapons.
"To forcibly stop the vessel, warning fire was opened from automatic weapons," the Russian defence ministry said."After the inspection group completed its work on board, the Sukru Okan continued on its way to the port of Izmail," the defence ministry said. "This statement could be a signal to all civilian vessels in the Black Sea," she said, and called for all transportation and navigation there to be conducted under international guarantees. Russia, she added, was trying to assert its right to stop a ship or deploy aircraft in the Black Sea and "face no consequences.
Russia has said it will treat any ships approaching Ukrainian ports as potential military vessels, and their flag countries as combatants on the Ukrainian side. Russia also struckUkraine responded with a similar threat to ships approaching Russian or Russian-held Ukrainian ports. Ukraine also attacked a Russian oil tanker and a warship at its Novorossiysk naval base, next door to a major grain and oil port.
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