13 January 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Ukraine's Foreign Ministry today defended the seizure of a Russian-manned lighthouse at the Yalta commercial port, saying all Crimea's hydrographic navigation facilities were the property of the central government...
...Russia says the lighthouse seizure is a "provocation" that violates bilateral agreements on the stationing of its Black Sea fleet in Crimea.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said the incident could affect Russian-Ukrainian relations.
An aide to the commander-in-chief of the Crimean-based Russian Black Sea Fleet, Captain Igor Dygalo, told the Itar-Tass news agency the logic of the Ukrainian argument is flawed.
Dygalo said that under a bilateral agreement, the Yalta lighthouse is part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's hydrographic navigation systems....
I thought the Ukranian government just collapsed. So who's making this decision? |