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'UK COLUMN NEWS as reported Fri 23rd November 2018: GAVIN WILLIAMSON (Secretary of State for War):"HMS Echo will deploy to the Black Sea in 2019 to demonstrate the UK's support to ensuring freedom of navigation in the region.'
'UK COLUMN NEWS Mon 26th November 2018: 3, Ukrainian Naval Vessels were seized by Russia after a shoot-out and a Tug-Boat ramming incident in the Kerch Strait close to the Crimea Bridge at the gateway of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, the Ukrainian naval vessels were moving into the Sea of Azov that under international law those waters are the jurisdiction and territories of Russia.'
'KERCH CRISIS TimeLine of Events:
➧ Ukraine detains Russian Ship (April 2018).
➧ Ukraine extends territorial waters by 12 nautical miles off Southern Coast.
➧ UK Announce deployment HMS Echo to Black Sea.
➧ Statement by General Carleton-Smith "Russia biggest threat to UK".
➧ Ukeaine Deploy 2 Armoured Warships that headed towards Kerch, turned around.
➧ Naval altercations at Kerch Straits, 3 Ukrainian Vessels detained.
➧ Ukraine resumes Shelling of the Donbass in eastern Ukraine.
➧ Ukraine President Poroshenko calls for Martial Law ahead of elections.
➧ US Spy plane deployed to the Black Sea area on Monday AM
➧ G20 Meeting in Buenos Ares between Trump and Putin.'
'RUSSIAN FEDERATION Sunday AM 25th November 2018: Today at 11:30 [08:30 GMT] the border guard service of Russia's FSB registered the advancement of two Gurza-class artillery armoured boats from the port of Berdyansk. At the moment, they are heading at full speed in the direction of the Kerch Strait to the zone where provocation was organised by the Ukrainian side. The border guard service of the Russian Federal Security Service takes all necessary measures to stop this provocation. '
'SPUTNIK Published 26th November 2018: US Spy Plane Enters Black Sea Area Amid Ukraine-Russia Naval Tensions – Reports.
On 25 November, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that three Ukrainian vessels - Berdyansk, Nikopol and Yana Kapu - had been seized after illegally crossing the maritime border with Russia.'
https://sputniknews.com/world/201811261070136543-black-sea-us-spy-plane/

'The Boeing RC-135V reconnaissance/electronic warfare plane left the US naval base at Souda Bay on Crete at 05:50 GMT - entering Bulgarian airspace as of 06:30 GMT heading oward the Crimea peninsula.'
'ATLANTIC COUNCIL (Working Together to Secure the Future) Published 21st March 2018: How the US Can Shore Up Ukraine’s Vulnerabilities in the Black Sea
Four years after the invasion of Crimea and the Donbas, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine continues unabated. For all the failures of the government in Kyiv (Kiev) to reform, Ukraine is still fighting our war. Were it not for Ukrainians’ willingness to defend themselves, NATO would be spending a fortune to reform its past structures and procedures and defend its members against Russian threats. For if Ukrainian independence and/or territorial integrity were suborned by Russia, NATO would be obliged to raise large defenses for Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia in addition to the Baltic detachments already in force. Yet in too many NATO capitals, there is an unwillingness to recognize that Putin is constantly escalating his war against the West as shown by the latest chemical warfare attacks in Salisbury, England. Therefore rendering Ukraine the help it needs even as we pressure it to reform continues to be in US national interests.
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/how-the-us-can-shore-up-ukraine-s-vulnerabilities-in-the-black-sea

'UK COLUMN NEWS 26th November 2018: Hard to call coincidence and very easy to call engineered.'
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