NATO considers Russia’s actions to restrict access through the Kerch Strait and ban on navigation in the Sea of Azov a part of the country’s broader pattern of destabilising behaviour in the region and calls on Russia to stop provocations immediately.
UkrInform: NATO calls on Russia to allow freedom of navigation in Sea of Azov
A view of the two breakwaters with lighhouses that form the entrance to the port in Mariupol, 800 kilometers southeast of Kyiv. Mariupol activists and military experts warn that Russia could launch an amphibious assualt from the Azov Sea, where Ukraine's defenses are the weakest.