Raab: UK Ships to Continue to Sail Waters Near Crimea After HMS Defender Incident

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UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Tuesday that the country’s vessels would keep the route through Crimean waters despite a recent incident involving the UK’s HMS Defender destroyer.

“HMS Defender was taking the shortest and most direct route. It is an internationally recognised traffic route. We’ve got every right to conduct innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters, according to international law. That’s what we’ll continue to do”, Raab told a parliamentary committee.

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