Kerch Strait Incident: Ministry of Defense Briefing

November 26, 2018, Kyiv.

On video: briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, dedicated to the military-strategic assessment of the threat of an invasion of Ukraine by the russian armed forces after russia seized ships of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kerch Strait; journalists, beginning of the briefing; fragment of intercepted conversations of Russian servicemen; comment on international law by Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Radion Tymoshenko; speech by the representative of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense, Vadym Skibitsky; answers to journalists' questions.

Reference: the incident in the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018 caused an urgent reaction of the Ukrainian authorities. The very next day, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine held a briefing, at which the military command assessed the event as an act of armed aggression by the russian federation and a potential threat of a large-scale invasion. The Ukrainian leadership initiated the introduction of martial law, and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry launched a diplomatic campaign at the international level to consolidate the support of partners.