The Russian embassy in Washington called on the US "to stop intervening for the wards who are unruly in the Sea of ??Azov". The diplomatic department published an appeal on its Facebook page in response to a statement by the State Department on the situation in the region. "The State Department in the person of the official representative of X. Nauert concerned about legitimate stops for inspecting ships in the Azov Sea. It is noteworthy that not one of the "hundreds" of courts has been named (this is important for understanding the policy of double standards). Here, the facts of Ukrainian piracy are hushed up, "the document says.. The Russian department was reminded that in March 2018. Ukrainian border guards seized the trawler "Nord", whose team does not recognize itself as Ukrainian citizens, and in August in the port of Kherson was blocked by the Russian tanker "Mechanic Pogodin".

Charges against Russia are put forward to divert attention from human rights violations in the United States and satellite countries, stressed the Russian embassy and cited as an example the arrest of Russian woman Maria Butina. Kiev accused Moscow that Russian border guards prevent shipping in the Sea of ??Azov: they block ships going to Ukrainian ports through the Kerch Strait. However, the border control department of the FSB in Crimea repeatedly stressed that all inspections of foreign sea vessels are in accordance with the norms of international maritime law, recalls RIA FAN.