ukraine: With relations still raw after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and its backing for a pro-Moscow insurgency in eastern Ukraine, the incident risks pushing the two countries towards a wider conflict and is likely to renew Western calls for more sanctions on Moscow, according to Nine News Australia. Russia's FSB security service said its border patrol boats had seized two small Ukrainian armoured artillery vessels and a tug boat after opening fire on them and wounding several sailors on Sunday. To improve your experience update it here News World Russia resists calls to free Ukraine ships10 08pm Nov 26, has resisted international calls to release three Ukrainian naval ships that its border patrols had fired on and seized near Crimea at the weekend, triggering the most dangerous crisis in years between Moscow and Kiev. It said it had opened a criminal case into what it called the ships' illegal entry into Russian territorial waters. Kiev denied its ships had done anything wrong and accused Moscow of military aggression. A spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry, Maria Zakharova, accused Ukraine of sending the ships to deliberately provoke Russia and said the ranking diplomat at Kiev's embassy in Moscow would be summoned over the incident.
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