Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted the U.K. Navy was “entirely right” to defend freedom of navigation following an incident with Russia in the Black Sea, while Moscow warned it was prepared to fire on warships entering territorial waters it claims around Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.
RFE/RL: British PM defends freedom of navigation after Black Sea incident with Russia
A Ukrainian naval group navigates near the Black Sea shore during the Joint Endeavor 2020 exercises at a firing range in Mykolaiv Oblast on Sept. 20, 2020.