Be the mistress of the sea

Russia aimed at the occupation of the Sea of ​​Azov, said President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at a session of the UN General Assembly. "Having illegally built a bridge across the Kerch Strait, Russia began to systematically violate the freedom of international shipping," Poroshenko said. In his speech, he urged to introduce new tough sanctions against Moscow for these actions that violate the UN Convention under the Law of the Law.

“Under the Russian occupation, Crimea turned into a military bastion, which threatens the security and stability of the entire Black Sea region,” Poroshenko warned. He urged to support the resolution with condemning the militarization of Crimea, which Ukraine will make at the current session.

On September 16, the Ukrainian government announced his intention to create a new naval base in the Azov region. On September 23, two vessels of the Ukrainian Navy - the Donbass Management Ship and the Korets tugboat - passed from Odessa to Berdyansk near the Crimean bridge, through the exclusive economic zone established by Russia off the coast of the annexed Crimea.

From the second half of April, the FSB border service massively detains ships passing through the zone controlled by it. The Russian authorities began the blockade of the Sea of ​​Azov after the detention of the Crimean fishing vessel "Nord" by the Ukrainian border guards; His crew has Russian passports.

Poroshenko recalled that aggression against Ukraine continues. "Moscow makes Ukrainian children orphans. He tortures our patriots in their prisons. More than one and a half million people have become internally displaced faces. They still cannot return to their homes. Russia is constantly increasing the human tragedy," Poroshenko said. According to him, Russia also “poisons Ukrainian land”, provoking environmental disasters in the Crimea and Donbass.

Poroshenko emphasized that the "aggressive expansionist policy" of Moscow continues in the conditions of impunity: "Since there was no adequate punishment, Ukraine happened after Georgia, after Litvinenko, they creaked, and after Aleppo - Idlib."

"We protect the Ukrainian land and our free choice, we are anti -resistant to the reviving neo -imperialist state, which wants to separate the world again, and thus we protect the free world," Poroshenko said.

He called on the world community to remember the causes of the war. "Ukraine made a sovereign decision about its own path to a free world based on democratic values ​​and rules. Russia punishes Ukraine for this. Killing. It destroys at home. It is lying on an industrial scale. It pretends that Ukraine, like Georgia," assumed itself, "he emphasized.

“Do we know what the next neighbor of Russia will“ attack himself ”?” Poroshenko turned to the session participants. “Will the world continue to be in a state of“ convenient numbness ”, hoping that“ I will not be the next? ”

He called on the UN "not to be silent" when the values ​​and principles of international law violate one of the countries that have the right to veto. Unable to prevent aggression against Ukraine, the UN can play a constructive role in settlement, deploying an international peacekeeping mission in the Donbass, Poroshenko noted. He emphasized that the peacekeepers should have a strong mandate and broad powers, otherwise this initiative will lead to freezing the conflict and "consolidating the presence of the aggressor and his minions in the Donbass."