BREAKING: Ukraine’s Defence Ministry announces that all ships travelling to Russian ports and Ukrainian ports occupied by Russia in the Black Sea may be considered as potential carriers of military cargoes from midnight on July 21 “with all the associated risks”

by PatientBuilder499

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  4. >The ~~Nazis~~ Russians entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them.

  7. Two can play that game

    Jokes aside, I hope turkey intervenes. Otherwise the battle of the Black Sea is about to begin

  8. I guess this is less risky for Ukraine than it is for Russia but I’m still not sure that this is a good call. Let’s hope that the vast majority of them are Russian ships and that we won’t have to worry about angering powers that are not abiding the sanctions. It will be interesting to see whether or not Ukraine has the capability to enforce this.

  10. Novorossiysk port is Russia’s largest on the European side. The other being in the NATO lake of the Baltic Sea. Vlad is playing 5-d chess here, once again.

  12. Isn’t that a declaration of war against other countries?

  13. Assuming that Russia’s main goal with their threats is to drive up insurance cost for Ukrainian vessels shipping grain, Ukraine appears to try themselves at the same game – albeit admittingly with less leverage than the Russians, seein how Ukraine doesn’t have a fleet to pressure their own threats.

    I don’t think Russia’s oil trade is going by the Black Sea much, is it?

  15. This seems quite a lot more potent as an announcement than the russia one, somehow…

  16. Ok, serious question, what are the chances that Ukraine could “sneak attack” and board a Russian warship and commandeer it for their own use, sort of like pirates in the olden times? Any possibility?

  17. We were trying to warn you about your Black Sea’s fleet insurance policy.

  18. Can Turkey just do the same with the bosphorus stait for all russian ships?

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