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UK defies Russian military over Crimea
By EUobserver
"The Royal Navy will always uphold the international law of the sea and will not be impeded on innocent passage," British defence secretary Ben Wallace told The Times Thursday after a confrontation between a UK warship, the HMS Defender, and the Russian navy and air force this week, when it sailed past Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, but which the UN sees as still being Ukrainian territory.