Stepping up harassment of merchant ships heading for Ukraine’s Sea of Azov ports

Stepping up harassment of merchant ships heading for Ukraine’s Sea of Azov ports, coast guard ships of Russia’s Federal Security Service on Sunday detained and ‘inspected’ a record seven ships going to Mariupol and Berdyansk, Andriy Klymenko, editor-in-chief of BlackSeaNews, writes on Facebook. Ukrainian intelligence estimates that Russia now has about 40 warships in the Sea of Azov.