Early in the morning of 25 November, three Ukrainian vessels – the Nikopol gunboat, the Berdyansk gunboat, and the Yany Kapu tugboat – set sail from the Black Sea port of Odessa and advanced towards Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov, via the Kerch Strait. The Ukrainian Navy would subsequently describe this as a “planned movement” of ships.
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A screenshot from a video shows a Russian coast guard ship ramming a Ukrainian navy tug early on the morning on Nov. 25, 2018, in the Black Sea not far from the Kerch Strait. The video was shot from a Russian ship and leaked online the same day.
