UN Security Council blocks discussion of Russia's raised issue of Kerch Strait situation

Four members of the Security Council voted in favor of the agenda, seven voted against, and four abstained.

©Photo: Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in Crimea

"The provisional agenda has not been adopted. The agenda could not receive the necessary number of votes," said the President of the UN Security Council.

The agenda of the emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in the Sea of ​​Azov, convened at the request of Russia, was "Violation of the border of the Russian Federation".

Meanwhile, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Nikki Haley called Russia's actions a provocation and said that the US and its European allies in the UN Security Council were concerned about the incident in the Kerch Strait and declared their support for Ukraine's sovereignty.

As the Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations stated: The Russian Federation regrets the fact that the UN Security Council refused to approve the agenda for the proposed meeting on the incident in the Kerch Strait region.

DayNovember 25, three ships of the Ukrainian Navy Berdyansk, Nikopol and Yana Kapa, ​​violated Articles 19 and 21 of the United Nations Convention, illegally crossed the Russian maritime border. The ships did not comply with the legitimate requests of the Russian authorities. Russia decided to use weapons. All three ships were detained about 20 kilometers from the Russian coast. Russia has opened a criminal case for violating the state border.

In the incident, three Ukrainian soldiers were slightly injured. They received medical care, their lives are not in danger. Russia has opened a criminal case for violating the state border.

The Kremlin called the incident in the Kerch Strait a very dangerous provocation. The press secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov, stressed that the Russian side during the incident in the Kerch Strait acted in strict accordance with Russian and international law. Russian President Vladimir Putin is closely following the situation in the Kerch Strait and has received all the information on this issue, the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters.

On the evening of November 26, the temporary representative for Ukrainian affairs in Moscow RM Nimchinsky was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, a statement of protest was made to him and the corresponding note was personally handed to the diplomat regarding the gross violation of the rules of peaceful navigation by Ukrainian Navy ships in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation on November 25, 2018 in the Black Sea.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree on the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to impose a state of war in the country.

The state of martial law in Ukraine will be in effect from November 26, 2018 to January 26, 2019. The General Staff is authorized to partially organize its implementation.

Ukrainian security forces must urgently strengthen counter-espionage, counter-terrorism and counter-sabotage regimes, as well as security in the information sphere.