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Turkey fires up NATO plan: Closes Straits to two British warships - Blocks their entry into the Black Sea

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4/01/2024 - 18:25

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Turkey has closed the Straits, prohibiting the entry into the Black Sea of ​​two minesweepers donated by Britain to the Ukrainian Navy. Ankara made use of its right as it derives from the Treaty of Montreux.

In more detail, the Turkish authorities announced today (2/1) that they will not allow two British minesweepers to sail through Turkish territorial waters as they head to the Black Sea to be used by Ukraine, because this would constitute a violation of an international treaty crossing the Straits in time of war.

Britain announced last month that it would transfer two Royal Navy minesweepers to the Ukrainian Navy to help bolster Ukraine's maritime operations in its war with Russia.

These are the Sandown-class minesweepers HMS Grimsby and HMS Shoreham, which have been renamed Chernihiv and Cherkasy (from the Ukrainian regions of the same name).

NATO member Turkey has informed its allies that it will not allow these ships to cross the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits while the war in Ukraine continues, the presidency's communications department announced.

When the war in Ukraine began in 2022, Turkey activated the 1936 Treaty of Montreux, effectively blocking the passage of warships from the warring parties. The treaty excludes ships returning to their home base.

Turkey implements the Montreux Treaty impartially and scrupulously to prevent an escalation in the Black Sea , as the Turkish presidency claimed.

The Turkish blockade is of great importance as Ankara knows that the two minesweepers are the first ships that NATO wants to send to the Mediterranean Sea to "test" reactions. Even in the form of a donation to the Ukrainian Navy.

The creation of a "naval coalition" recently announced by Britain aims to prepare the ground for the deployment of a NATO Fleet in the Black Sea. His mission will coincide with a simultaneous increase in NATO's naval presence in the Baltic.

Turkey is setting fire to the British plan

The UK wanted to hand over two minesweepers to Ukraine to help Kiev carry out mine-sweeping operations, to neutralize mines laid by the Russian navy so they could resume Ukrainian exports by sea.

The 52-meter-long, fiberglass Sandown-class vessels, according to London, will give Ukraine "vital capabilities that will help save lives at sea and open up critical export routes," its defense minister explained. British Grand Saps, according to a press release published by his services.

Ukrainian exports have fallen sharply since the war broke out in February 2022, with the Black Sea becoming a battleground between the forces of Moscow and Kiev.

The delivery of the two minesweepers coincides with the announcement by Grand Saps and its Norwegian counterpart Bjørn Arild Gram that a coalition is being created to increase Ukraine's maritime capabilities ("Maritime Capability Coalition").

This is a "new effort" by Britain, Norway and other allies in order to "strengthen the naval means of Ukraine in the long term" , noted the British Minister of Defense.

The aim is to enable Kiev to "defend its territorial waters" and "enhance security in the Black Sea", he added.

This new "coalition" was decided to be formed during the most recent meetings of the contact group for the defense of Ukraine, which includes some fifty countries, led by the US.

Since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022, the UK has provided the Ukrainian armed forces with £4.6bn (€5.3bn) in military aid.  https://twitter.com/i/status/1734112609291379182

 

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