“President Poroshenko and his regime enjoy impunity and plan provocations like the one that occurred at the entrance to the Kerch Strait from the Black Sea. Literally a day after this blatant provocation, the text of the order…was found on one of the boats… It said that the boats should covertly, without requesting authorisation of the Russian authorities…Why?…There may only be one answer: they wanted to provoke a scandal.”

— Sergey Lavrov

News conference following the 25th OSCE Ministerial Council, Milan, Italy (7 December 2018)

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