The Russian Defense Ministry has introduced that, following the suspension of the grain deal, all international ships certain for Ukrainian Black Sea ports shall be thought-about navy cargo carriers.
In addition, Russia will take into account as international locations concerned within the struggle on the Ukrainian aspect the international locations whose flags are on the Black Sea ships. The measure has entered into pressure this midnight, as detailed by the Russian navy portfolio.
Likewise, the Russian authorities have knowledgeable that the worldwide waters of the jap sector of the Black Sea shall be thought-about any longer as “quickly harmful” for navigation, based on data collected by the TASS information company.
According to the US, Russia is contemplating attacking civilian ships within the Black Sea after which blaming Ukraine, a high-ranking official confirmed. Washington considers that there’s a “coordinated effort” on the a part of Russia to hold out these assaults and blame the Ukrainian forces, based on what the spokesman for the National Security Council of the White House, Adam Hodge, reported to a number of nationwide networks.
Later, the State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, has accused Russia of “utilizing meals as a weapon of struggle” after issuing warnings concerning the attainable lack of safety for ships that ply the waters of the Black Sea.
“It needs to be very clear to everybody on this planet proper now that Russia is utilizing meals as a weapon of struggle, not solely in opposition to the Ukrainian folks, however in opposition to all of the folks of the world, particularly underdeveloped international locations,” he added.
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