{"id":23338,"date":"2018-11-26T21:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T21:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23338"},"modified":"2018-11-26T21:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T21:22:57","slug":"what-triggered-the-military-confrontation-in-black-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23338","title":{"rendered":"What triggered the military confrontation in Black Sea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"86.6943005181\">\n<p>Relations between Russia and Ukraine are still raw after the annexation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/crimea.html\">Crimea<\/a> four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has since been backing pro-Russia separatists in eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/ukraine.html\">Ukraine<\/a> where fighting continues.<\/p>\n<p>There are fears Sunday&#8217;s confrontation in the Black Sea could lead to a wider conflict.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian coastguard ship rammed a Ukrainian navy tug and opened fire on two other ships. Several Ukrainian sailors were wounded &#8211; more than 20 were taken as prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>It happened in the Kerch Strait, off the coast of Crimea, a narrow stretch of water that links the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, which is home to two of Ukraine&#8217;s most important ports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/russia.html\">Russia<\/a> says the Ukrainian naval vessels entered its waters illegally despite a treaty which guarantees freedom of navigation.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine calls it an act of &#8220;aggression&#8221; and has put its military into combat readiness.<\/p>\n<p>But President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/europe\/2014\/05\/profile-petro-poroshenko-2014519124052146684.html\">Petro Poroshenko<\/a> says Ukraine does not plan to fight anyone.<\/p>\n<p>So, can the crisis be contained? Or will it escalate further?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter<\/strong>: Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Glenn Diesen &#8211; Professor of international relations at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow<\/p>\n<p>Taras Kuzio &#8211; Ukraine expert and author of Putin&#8217;s War Against Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>Mychailo Wynnyckyj &#8211; Associate professor of the Department of Sociology and Business School at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relations between Russia and Ukraine are still raw after the annexation of Crimea four years ago. Moscow has since been backing pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine where fighting continues. There are fears Sunday&#8217;s confrontation in the Black Sea could lead to a wider conflict. A Russian coastguard ship rammed a Ukrainian navy tug and opened&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}