{"id":41097,"date":"2018-11-30T15:31:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41097"},"modified":"2018-11-30T15:31:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:31:42","slug":"russia-responds-to-ukraines-provocation-and-how-martial-law-affects-minsk-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41097","title":{"rendered":"Russia Responds to Ukraine\u2019s Provocation\u00a0and How Martial Law Affects Minsk II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia Responds to Ukraine\u2019s Provocation\u00a0and How Martial Law Affects Minsk II<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Short Interview with Russian UN Deputy Permanent Rep\u00a0 Dimitry\u00a0Polanskiy\u00a0about the Kerch incident and how Ukraine\u2019s declaring Martial Law affects Donbass.<\/p>\n

On November 25, 2018, Russian border patrol intercepted three Ukrainian warships on course for the Kerch bridge. Ignoring previous agreements, Ukraine did not tell Russia or schedule transit through the shallow water strait.<\/p>\n

Commercial and state traffic have to schedule traversing the narrow channel because it handles traffic from one direction at a time. This is most important for vessels with a\u00a0deeper draft because water depth is shallow going through.<\/p>\n

A vessel\u2019s draft is the distance from the waterline to the bottom of the hull. This determines the minimum depth needed for the vessel to safely navigate shallow water such as the Kerch Strait. The strait can hold a vessel with an eight-meter (26 ft) draft as long as pilot assistance is used.<\/p>\n

According to Ukraine\u2019s version of the Kerch incident, three warships were going from the port of Odessa to the port of Mariupol and Russia shot at and captured the vessels that were innocently traveling from port to port.<\/p>\n

The Daily Signal reported<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cOn Sunday, Europe\u2019s two largest standing armies went to the precipice of a major war.<\/em><\/p>\n

That day, Russian military forces attacked and captured three Ukrainian navy vessels that were transiting through the Russian-controlled Kerch Strait on their way from Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea port of Odesa to Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis attack, of course, is not accidental. This is clearly an element planned by Russians in the escalation of the situation in the waters of the Sea of Azov, which has been lasting for several months. And I\u2019m sure this is still not a culmination,\u201d Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Monday in remarks posted to his administration\u2019s website.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Russia Responds to Ukraine\u2019s Provocation\u00a0and How Martial Law Affects Minsk II Short Interview with Russian UN Deputy Permanent Rep\u00a0 Dimitry\u00a0Polanskiy\u00a0about the Kerch incident and how Ukraine\u2019s declaring Martial Law affects Donbass. On November 25, 2018, Russian border patrol intercepted three Ukrainian warships on course for the Kerch bridge. Ignoring previous agreements, Ukraine did not tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18160,23216,507,625,694,821,5510],"class_list":["post-41097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-george-eliason","tag-kerch-strait","tag-martial-law","tag-petro-poroshenko","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41098,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41097\/revisions\/41098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}