After the incident in the Black Sea: where will the tensions between Russia and the West go?

Former US Navy Admiral James Stavidris wrote to Bloomberg in early May that Russia had withdrawn its troops from the Ukrainian border, where some 100,000 troops had been mobilized in the spring. soldiers, other provocations are to be expected in the Black Sea.

The strategically important Crimean ports on the Black Sea are believed to have been one of the main reasons why Russia completed the annexation of the peninsula in 2014.

Reuters / Photo by Scanpix / British squad destroyer HMS Defender

On June 23, Russia announced that it had fired warning shots in the Black Sea near the Crimean peninsula attached to HMS Defender, a United Kingdom (United Kingdom) squad.

Russia claims that the British warship entered its territorial waters, but the United Kingdom, like other Western nations, does not recognize the annexation of Crimea and therefore does not consider these waters as Russian territory.