Earlier this week, a Russian Navy warship fired a shell in the direction of Ukraine:
A sailor aboard the Russian warship Tsesar Kunikov, an assault landing ship, fired a 57 millimetre artillery round in the direction of the town, for unknown reasons.
The shell landed near the village Sakharna, a suburb of Sevastopol, without causing injuries or damage.
It sounds to me like either a simple mistake, or the sailor in question had some personal “issues” he needed to work through. Either way, the Russian Navy should be embarrassed.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry are, rightly, a bit grumpy about the whole incident. A statement released yesterday reads:
The explosion could result in death of people and severe destruction in the historical site of the city. Therefore it may not be regarded as a simple regrettable incident. It is an obvious consequence of incompliance with the requirements provided in the relevant bilateral documents. Thus, the Agreement of 1997 on the status and conditions of deployment of the Black Sea Navy of the Russian Federation in the territory of Ukraine, particularly, the Section 2 of the Article 8, clearly defines: “The military units shall conduct exercises and other training operations within the bounds of training centers, grounds, positional and dispersal areas, shooting-ranges and (except for prohibited areas) in allotted airspace areas subject to coordination with the competent authorities”.
That’s the way to do it. Fight fire with bureaucracy.
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Michael Averko 03.31.07 at 1:35 pm
Chill!
Now, why would the Russian navy risk hitting people sympathetic to them?
BTW, Remember when a Ukrainian rocket hit a Sibir plan en route from Israel to Russia?
There was also an American bomb which hit Bulgaria during the bombing of Yugoslavia, as well as an incident involving US air personnel at an Italian ski resort.
ReluctantMuscovite 04.01.07 at 5:41 am
It didn’t just hit the plane, it shot it right out of the sky, killing everybody inside.
http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/100501crash.shtml
My respects to the Israelis for NOT doing what a Russian man did after HIS children died as the result of a air traffic controller’s ERROR.
http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/10/26/66272.html
So — chill out, Ukraine.
Something else: how come Ukraine STILL hasn’t been able to establish a political order that at least resembles a functioning democracy + economic growth after 15 years of independence?
RM
Michael Averko 04.01.07 at 12:33 pm
Oops!
In answer to that question, the Orange side blames the Blue one for that, when in truth there’e much blame to be found with both of those two political factions.
Someone made the observation that Ukraine is in some ways a more extreme version of Russia. Reminds me of some Ukrainian nationalists who maintain the the Ukrainians are the real Russians and that the name Russia more befits Ukraine.
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