{"id":231802,"date":"2021-04-16T08:06:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T08:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=231802"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T17:57:32","slug":"putin-blocks-all-foreign-warships-from-reaching-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=231802","title":{"rendered":"Putin blocks ALL foreign warships from reaching Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Above: the Kerch Strait Bridge, linking Crimea with southern Russia.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Biden cancelled the deployment of two US warships from the Black Sea amid the troop build-up in Ukraine<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Washington announced the U-turn after the Kremlin warned D.C.to stay away &#8216;for their own good&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8216;We have no desire to be in an escalating war with Russia,&#8217; a senior administration official said<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hours later, Putin took advantage of Biden&#8217;s U-turn back by closing off the Kerch Strait\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The move\u00a0blocks any access to foreign warships to the Crimea until October 2021\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Biden administration on Thursday announced sweeping new sanctions on Russian interference\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They kicked out 10 diplomats from the US Embassy and sanctioned 32 Russian individuals and entities\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sanctions were imposed on &#8216;eight individuals and entities&#8217; associated with the &#8216;ongoing repression in Crimea&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The White House also denounced Moscow for offering the Taliban bounties for U.S. troops in Afghanistan\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Administration formally blamed Moscow for SolarWinds hack\u00a0and accused Moscow of still trying to hack American targets\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Emily Goodin \u2013 Daily Mail April 15, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>President Joe Biden cancelled the deployment of two US warships from the Black Sea despite warning Vladimir Putin there would be &#8216;repercussions&#8217; for the troop build-up in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Turkey said Washington was sending two warships to the Black Sea, in a decision Russia called an unfriendly provocation.<\/p>\n<p>But the Biden administration reversed the decision after the Kremlin warned them to &#8216;stay away for their own good&#8217;, and gave Putin the chance to ramp up his military presence in Crimea and near the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials decided not to send the ships to avoid needlessly escalating the situation with Russia over the Ukraine, a US defense official told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/15\/us-navy-ukraine-russia-tensions-481897\"><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, Putin took advantage of Biden&#8217;s U-turn back by closing off the Kerch Strait between Crimea and Russia, blocking all foreign warships from getting to Ukraine until October 2021.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_134488\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/USS-Porter-sets-sail-in-the-Bosphorus-enroute-to-the-Black-Sea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134488\" class=\"wp-image-134488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/USS-Porter-sets-sail-in-the-Bosphorus-enroute-to-the-Black-Sea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-134488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Porter sets sail in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Black Sea in Istanbul, Turkey, June 6, 2016. REUTERS\/Murad Sezer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ukraine said the move was an &#8216;act of war&#8217; and were disappointed foreign destroyers had turned around before one of Moscow&#8217;s biggest escalations in the last 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>The Kerch Strait is a crucial access for the Ukrainian ports of Mairupol and\u00a0Berdyansk. Commercial ships will still be allowed to pass through, but the blockade leave the region vulnerable in the face of Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Washington&#8217;s change in the region came on the day Biden announced sweeping new sanctions against Moscow as the White House seeks to rein in Russian aggression while avoiding an all-out war with the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have no desire to be in an escalating war with Russia,&#8217; a senior administration official said Thursday on a briefing call with reporters, saying the White House doesn&#8217;t want things &#8216;spinning out of control.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We do not seek a downward spiral. We can and think we can avoid that,&#8217; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials made it clear, however, that the administration &#8216;will not accept [Russia&#8217;s] destabilizing behavior that harms the United States, its allies and its partners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9474725\/Biden-hits-Putin-sanctions-retaliation-election-interference-cyber-attacks-Ukraine.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia closes Kerch Strait after Biden sent two US Navy warships in a signal of support for Ukraine &#8212; but then called them back after Russian warned him to back-off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231806,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231802\/revisions\/231806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}