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updated 10:20 AM UTC, Dec 13, 2023

Ukraine-Russia Saga: Trump Cancels Meeting With Putin

Unic Press UK: The United States President, Donald Trump, who hitherto is scheduled to meet the Russian President, Vladimir Putin during the G-20 summit in Argentina, tweeted Thursday, saying that he has decided to call off his planned meeting with Putin because the Russian Federation has yet to release the Ukrainian boats and sailors it seized when they ‘illegally’ strayed into Russian waters near Crimea –  peninsula, which lies on the northern coast of the Black Sea, and which, the Ukrainian government insist was forcefully annexed by Russia in 2014.

On November 25, the Russian military seized three Ukrainian naval vessels and the entire crew on board, claiming a breach of Russian territorial waters. The Russian government is currently prosecuting the sailors, who were on board the captured navy boats.

“The Ukrainian vessels were sailing between two Ukrainian ports: from Odessa in the Black Sea to Mariupol in the Azov Sea. The only waterway that connects the two is the Kerch Strait between Crimea and mainland Russia,” the RT reported.

 

 

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