They will leave the joke

There was a hope for the return of three vessels captured in the Kerch Strait to Ukraine

Boats and tugboat in the port of Kerch. Photo: RIA Novosti

The fact that Russia is unlikely to return to Ukraine the artillery armored boat “Berdyansk” and “Nikopol”, as well as the raid tugboat “Yani Kapu”, and after returning to their homeland from Lefortovo, 24 military sailors - crews of these vessels.

On September 7, 2019, the President of Zelensky right at the plane of the plane, who delivered prisoners to Boryspil Airport, shot yellow sports bracelets with the names of sailors from his wrists-he continuously wore them as a reminder-and gave them to the released. Journalists regarded the gesture as an overly theatrical, but sincere ...

The mutual exchange of prisoners between Russia and the decrais. In the photo: Vladimir Tereshchenko, the senior sailor of the Yana Kapu tugboat, with relatives at the Borispol airport on September 7, 2019. Photo: Andrey Novikov / "Gromadskoye"

Before the elections, Zelensky really promised to return Sentsov and other political prisoners home, as well as participants in the transition through the Kerch Strait. The word restrained and was not going to restrain joy. With three units of the Navy of Ukraine, the situation was worse.

As you know, fire was opened in Ukrainian courts.

Berdyansk immediately lost its course, six sailors were injured in varying severity. In addition, the Russian border “Don” rammed Yani Kapu.

The video cameras scattered around the world as a top new: the border guards of the Russian Federation themselves filmed the process, gambling, giving the command to attack a low-proceeding dish.

In vain, the radio operator from the tugboat sent distress signals on the air ...

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“Give ships with bullet holes and other signs of real naval battle, and one -sided, to arm Kyiv with additional evidence about the scale of Russian aggression. The Kremlin will never go to this, no one is a decree! " - The forecasts of observers in this situation coincided. For nothing that three days after the attack, an international marine safety conference was held, where the issue was discussed as key. The UN International Tribunal also made a decision on the law: he ordered Russia to return to Ukraine “Yani Kapu”, “Berdyansk” and “Nikopol”. But people are primary.

The topic of ships reappeared in the public plane after the breeding of forces and equipment from the demarcation line began in the Donbass. True, the new stage of exchange of prisoners at the last moment was “frozen” accompanying this process. The working meeting announced on November 12 in Minsk of the humanitarian subgroup of the tripartite group broke. The offer of Kyiv was not supported - to hold a meeting in the format of a video conference. But information appeared about the assigned date of the summit in the Norman format - December 9th. And the assumption that Russia before the start of negotiations will make a gesture of goodwill. That is, diplomacy again.

The parties coordinate the place and time of the transfer of ships, taking into account that everything should happen at sea, and not in the port. Home “Yani Kapu”, “Berdyansk” and “Nikopol” that are now on the joke in the port of Kerch, they will be pulled by Ukrainian tugboats. At the same time, the personal weapons of the crews, radios and part of the ship documents will not be returned - Russian investigators apply to them as material evidence, who continue the criminal prosecution of 24 released sailors. According to the lawyer Nikolai Polozov, representing the interests of Ukrainians, the Russian Federation can put them on the wanted list.

Although the US military attache in Ukraine Kuinn Voffford at the next conference on international security recalled the need to fully fulfill the decisions of the tribunal, after all, sailors were released simply thanks to diplomatic agreements through the presidents of the two countries. And 93 sheets of evidence of the guilt of the Russian Federation, which captured ships in the Kerch Strait, did not disappear anywhere. “An armed incident in the Kerch Strait is an attack on the safety of the entire marine community,” Voffford summed up.

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According to the Odessa edition of the Dumskaya, the Ukrainian search and rescue vessel Sapphire, as well as the tugboats “Titan” and “Gaidamak” have already reached the “Yani Kapu”, “Berdyansk” and “Nikopol” returned from captivity. The meeting should take place about 60 miles from Odessa, in the area of Cape Tarkhankut.