Russia Threatens Any Future British Warship 'Provocation' With A 'Tougher Response'

A library photo of HMS Defender on operations. Photo: LPhot Rory Arnold/Royal Navy  

Reuters: Kremlin says 'provocations' like UK warship episode demand tough response 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A British warship's entry into what Moscow considers Russian territorial waters near Crimea last month is the kind of provocation that demands a tough response, the Kremlin said on Sunday. 

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia, which fired warning shots and dropped bombs in the path of the warship to chase it out of Black Sea waters off the coast of Crimea, could have sunk the warship. 

Moscow challenged the right of HMS Defender to pass through waters near Crimea, something London said it had every right to do. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 but most of the world still recognizes it as part of Ukraine.  

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Update #1: Russia says any future British warship 'provocation' will elicit a 'tough response' (SKY News)   

Update #2: Russia threatens to bomb Royal Navy warships in the Black Sea in a step up of hostilities (Portsmouth News)  

WNU Editor: The Kremlin is using this incident and many others to justify a revision of their national security strategy .... Putin OKs Revised Russian National Security Strategy (Military.com/AP). More here .... Russia: Putin approves strategy to counter Western influence (DW).

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