{"id":129924,"date":"2021-06-23T23:24:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T23:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=129924"},"modified":"2021-06-23T23:24:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T23:24:34","slug":"uks-new-kremlin-crisis-relations-with-moscow-hit-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/uks-new-kremlin-crisis-relations-with-moscow-hit-new-low\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&apos;s new Kremlin crisis: Relations with Moscow hit new low"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>UK&#8217;s new Kremlin crisis: Our relations with Moscow hit new low after clash with warship<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Repeated bursts of cannon fire could be heard off the deck of HMS Defender\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Russian military sources confirmed the incident early yesterday afternoon\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Military officials claimed a Russian plane dropped four high explosive bombs\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Relations between London and Moscow were at crisis point last night after a Russian vessel pursuing a Royal Navy warship opened fire in a dramatic incident witnessed by the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Repeated bursts of cannon fire could be heard off the deck of HMS Defender as President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s forces responded to the warship legitimately entering Crimean territorial waters in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Russian military sources confirmed the incident early yesterday afternoon approximately five miles from Cape Fiolent, a prominent landmark on the Crimean coastline.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian statement said: &#8216;The destroyer had been warned that weapons would be used if it trespassed the border of the Russian Federation. It did not react to the warning.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/23\/21\/44597603-9718691-image-a-31_1624481440988.jpg\" height=\"460\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Russian military officials also claimed a Russian plane dropped four high explosive fragmentation bombs as another warning to the UK warship.<\/p>\n<p>But this claim is almost certainly propaganda as no ordnance of this nature was seen or heard by the crew of Defender or picked up by her hi-tech sensors.<\/p>\n<p>After the incident, the Queen sent a message of &#8216;best wishes and a safe journey&#8217; to the crew, which was announced over the tannoy by the warship&#8217;s captain, Commander Vincent Owen. Russia reacted angrily, calling the warship&#8217;s actions an act of &#8216;blatant provocation&#8217; and summoning the British defence attache in Moscow for a dressing-down.<\/p>\n<p>British officials are expected to discuss the incident with Nato allies to agree a co-ordinated response to future Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told MPs that Russia remained a &#8216;threat to stability&#8217;, pointing to the 2018 Salisbury poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>The latest incident saw more than 50 interactions with Russian aircraft recorded by Defender in a few hours. Commander Owen told the Mail: &#8216;That is the closest I have come to a Russian vessel in my 21-year career. I suspect the gunfire was from one of the coastguard vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/23\/21\/44597607-9718691-image-a-32_1624481449252.jpg\" height=\"449\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Repeated bursts of cannon fire could be heard off the deck of HMS Defender (pictured) as President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s forces responded to the warship legimately entering Crimean territorial waters in the Black Sea<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We were confident and non-confrontational and exercising our entitlement to uphold the innocent passage of ships through international waters on a recognised shipping route.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was comfortable we were out of range of its guns as we were travelling at 30 knots to their 21. The 240 men and women aboard this ship performed as I would expect them to. But today has seen an upsurge in the Russian response as closing to that distance of 100 to 200 yards is neither safe nor seamanlike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve also had many Russian jets and an unmanned aerial vehicle interact with us.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2009, Defender is the fifth of the Royal Navy&#8217;s Type 45 destroyers. She is also one of the most advanced warships ever constructed.<\/p>\n<p>She belongs to the Royal Navy&#8217;s newly formed Carrier Strike Group and her role is to provide air defence for the UK&#8217;s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.<\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday she broke off from the CSG&#8217;s maiden voyage to perform her own delicate, possibly dangerous task.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/06\/23\/21\/44597635-9718691-image-a-33_1624481454583.jpg\" height=\"447\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Two Russian Coast Guard Vessels shadow HMS Defender closely whilst she conducts Freedom Of Navigation Operations<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wallace and the UK&#8217;s National Security Council had approved orders for Commander Owen to set course for Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula invaded by Russia in 2014 and still occupied by President Putin&#8217;s elite forces. This includes the much vaunted Black Sea fleet with its heavily armed frigates and submarines and squadrons of supersonic aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Commander Owen&#8217;s &#8216;freedom of navigation&#8217; patrol took Defender into disputed seas just off the Crimean coastline.<\/p>\n<p>While Britain considers these waters Ukrainian, Russia regards the peninsula as its territory, which its ships and aircraft are entitled to defend, aggressively if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s incident also came just days after President Putin&#8217;s abruptly terminated summit with US President Joe Biden which ended after barely three hours of talks and no agreement on Crimea or other security issues.<\/p>\n<p>Downing Street insisted Defender was taking the &#8216;most direct&#8217; route from Ukraine to Georgia along an &#8216;internationally recognised travel corridor&#8217; and was not subject to warning shots fired by Russia. A source acknowledged the Government was playing down the incident to deny Moscow the row it is seeking.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Tugendhat, Tory chairman of the Commons foreign affairs committee, accused Moscow of &#8216;pathetic grandstanding&#8217;. He said the West had &#8216;grown used to Russia lying&#8217;, adding: &#8216;Putin has stolen so much money from the Russian navy that most of their ships are rust buckets.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Russian embassy in London tweeted: &#8216;HMS Defender turns HMS Provocateur and violates Russian border. Not exactly a &#8221;routine&#8221; transit.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9718691\/UKs-new-Kremlin-crisis-relations-Moscow-hit-new-low-clash-warship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK&#8217;s new Kremlin crisis: Our relations with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UK&amp;apos;s new Kremlin crisis: Relations with Moscow hit new low - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/uks-new-kremlin-crisis-relations-with-moscow-hit-new-low\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK&amp;apos;s new Kremlin crisis: Relations with Moscow hit new low - 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