Washington demanded the closure of Russian ships access to the ports of Europe and the USA. This proposal was made by former US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst. However, this initiative was prepared before the Ukrainian provocation in the Kerch Strait, which suggests that it was carried out by order of the American authorities.. The report, which was prepared by the former diplomat, expressed Washington’s concern over the exacerbation of the situation in the Azov-Black Sea basin.. "The United States and the EU should carefully study the Kremlin provocations in the Sea of ??Azov and consider an adequate response.

It is possible to prohibit Russian ships leaving the ports of the Sea of ??Azov from entering the ports of Europe and the United States while Moscow is obstructing Ukrainian shipping there, "the document says, excerpt from RT. Herbst's report was published on the website of the Atlantic Council - an American non-governmental think tank - a few days before the collision of Russian and Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait. The former ambassador urged American and European politicians to consider "proactive use of sanctions to deter further Kremlin aggression". If this principle is adopted, it will become a new word in relations between Russia and the West: previously, sanctions were already taken post factum and were not used preventively. “While sanctions have been used to punish the Kremlin for past sins, they can also be used to deprive him of an incentive for further aggression,” Herbst insists. In Crimea, the proposals of the American diplomat were called insanity, and he himself was referred to a mournful home.. "This is all crazy. Chekhov Anton Pavlovich was right when he wrote his famous story "Ward number 6". Probably, it is necessary to create the World Chamber No. 6 and send all the crazy people there to tell each other what to do, ”the vice-speaker of the Crimean parliament Yefim Fix told RIA Novosti. Opinions that Washington may be directly related to what happened in the Kerch Strait, have already been expressed. It is unlikely that the limp Kiev regime deliberately went to the aggravation of relations with the Russian Federation without a pointer or approval from overseas.

“We would hardly have seen such incidents if the US State Department did not systematically support the initiative of bureaucratic lawlessness in the ruling circles of Ukraine,” said political scientist Sergei Sudakov, corresponding member of the Academy of Military Sciences.. On Sunday, November 25, the border ships of the Federal Security Service of Russia detained three Ukrainian warships for illegal crossing of the sea border of the Russian Federation. As a result of the collision, three Ukrainian sailors were slightly injured.. Kerch Strait was closed for shipping. Ukraine announced martial law. Moscow considered the actions of Ukrainian naval sailors a pre-planned provocation.