Putin closes off access to Black Sea after Biden’s about-face on Ukraine

[mystery-ak]

 Putin closes off access to Black Sea after Biden’s about-face on Ukraine

By Mark Moore

April 15, 2021 | 3:09pm | Updated

Russian President Vladimir Putin took advantage of the Biden administration’s decision to abandon plans to send two destroyers to the Black Sea by closing off the Kerch Strait, connecting Crimea to Russia, to foreign warships until next fall.

The action comes as Russia warned the US on Tuesday to stay away from the area “for their own good” after the Biden administration said it was going to send two destroyers — the USS Roosevelt and the USS Donald Cook — to the Black Sea in response to Moscow’s increasing military presence near Ukraine.

Putin will close the Kerch Strait beginning next week until October, blocking foreign warships that are conducting military exercises, including the US, the Ukraine foreign ministry said Thursday.

The US and its allies slapped sanctions on Putin for illegally annexing Crimea in 2014.

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https://nypost.com/2021/04/15/putin-closes-off-access-to-black-sea-after-biden-blinks/

[Smokin Joe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrbv40ENU_o

[dfwgator]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs

[skeeter]

Vlad's playing with fire here. Ask Cornpop.

[mystery-ak]

Vlad's playing with fire here. Ask Cornpop.

 

[PeteS in CA]

Access to the Black Sea from the Med is through the Dardanelles Strait, Sea of Marmara, and Chornomorsk Derince. The nation of Turkey is on both sides of these straits and sea. The Kerch Strait is between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Access to the Black Sea has not been cut off for USN ships. Did the NYP's "reporter" and "editor" bother to look at a map?!