"No warning shots have been fired at HMS Defender. The Royal Navy ship was conducting innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters in accordance with international law," a spokesperson ...

All ships, including warships …, enjoy the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea in accordance with international law, for which neither prior notification nor authorization is ...

HMS Defender was undertaking a high-profile journey, traveling through what most countries consider Ukrainian waters off the coast of Crimea.

A Russian patrol ship fired a warning shot yesterday at the British destroyer HMS Defender off the coast of Crimea. This was followed by the dropping of high-explosive OFAB-250s fragmentation ...

FILE – This March 20, 2020 file photo shows HMS Defender in Portsmouth, England. The Russian military says its warship has fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs to force the British ...

Russian forces fired warning shots at the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender after it entered the country's territorial waters in the Black Sea, the Russian Defence Ministry has said.

Nothing suggests that HMS Defender’s passage was anything but continuous and expeditious. But the UK should avoid relying on Ukrainian “permission” as a justification.