WASHINGTON, DC – The United States has condemned what it calls Russia’s “harassment” of international shipping in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait, saying it is a further example of Moscow’s attempts to “destabilize” Ukraine.
The State Department on Aug. 30 accused Russia of impeding hundreds of commercial vessels since April by limiting the size of ships that can transit the strait, the only path to reach Ukraine’s territorial waters in the Sea of Azov from the Black Sea.
