KYIV. UkraineGate , 31 , March , 2022 | War News
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the Ukrainian part of the Black and Azov Seas is now a completely “Dead Sea”. He said this during an address to the House of Representatives of Australia and added that the blocking of maritime trade routes should be prosecuted .
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“For decades, it was not the case that one state completely blocked the sea for another state and all merchant ships of any country. That’s what Russia did. The Ukrainian part of the Black and Azov Seas is now a completely dead sea. Any ship that tries “It can be completely destroyed by the Russian fleet. More than a hundred merchant ships under various flags have been blocked by Russia in our ports,” Zelensky said.
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He stressed that no country on the planet should have even a theoretical ability to block trade routes, especially to completely close the sea to other countries.
“No ruler in the world should count on impunity. (…) After 36 days of full-scale Russian war against Ukraine, it is safe to say that there is no other way in the world to guarantee global security than to force Russia into silence, peace and peace. responsibility for everything it has done against global security. A state that does not shy away from nuclear blackmail must immediately receive sanctions that demonstrate that blackmail has devastating consequences for the blackmailer, “Zelensky said.
Zelensky noted that it is necessary to develop a mechanism that will bring to justice any country that blocks the maritime trade route.
“We need effective tools to bring to justice any state that blocks all trade routes. So that no one is tempted to do so. Make the sea dead. Who are you? Now there are no such tools in the world. So the Australian leadership can be indispensable in modernizing the global security architecture, “Zelensky said.
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Andriy Klymenko, project manager at the Black Sea Institute for Strategic Studies , said that the Russian occupiers had mined the road from the Bosphorus to Odessa and lied that it was Ukrainian mines.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine noted that by mining the Black Sea, Russia is trying to discredit Ukraine in front of international partners.
Source: UKRGATE
