SQUASH HIM!: Russian Navy ship RAMS Ukrainian boat and OPENS FIRE injuring multiple crew

The Ukrainian navy has accused Russia of firing at and seizing three ships in Kerch Strait off annexed Crimea. 

In shocking video footage obtained from the Russian FSB secret service by Ukranian forces, a Russian navy ship ploughs into a Ukranian tug boat in the contested water, which separates Crimea from mainland Russia. 

The footage shows Russian vessel Don ramming a Ukrainian ship, according to Ukraine’s interior minister Arsen Avakov. 

In the footage obtained, commands such as “squash him, well done, squeeze him from the right, push from the right ****!” are heard. 

The command “Go **!!!! Go, everyone hold on tight **!!! Everyone hold on” is also heard as the warship rams the tugboat in an aggressive manoeuvre. 

The same Russian navy ship allegedly opened fire on and seized two small Ukranian warships and a tugboat, allegedly injuring six crew members in the key shipping route.  

Ukraine has said Russian forces used “openly aggressive actions” and then fired on the ships, immobilising all three. 

The incident is threatening to re-open a bloody conflict between the two soviet states. 

The skirmish began after Russian forces stopped three Ukranian ships from passing through the Sea of Azov – a shared territory that Moscow has continually tried to claim after seizing the peninsula in 2014. 

According to reports, the FSB security service said it launched the attack after ships had entered its waters illegally and allegedly ignored warning to halt. 

Russia said it used weapons “in order to stop the Ukrainian military,” which it claims illegally entered its waters, confirming “three Ukrainian navy ships were boarded and searched.” 

The FSB issued a statement saying: “The Ukrainian Navy’s vessels the Berdyansk, the Nikopol and the Yany Kapu, which violated Russia’s state border this morning, made another attempt of committing illegal activities in Russia’s territorial sea at 19:00 Moscow time on November 25. 

“They did not respond to legitimate demands by the ships and boats of Russia’s FSB Border Guard Service escorting them to stop immediately and performed dangerous manoeuvres.” 

According to TASS news agency, as a result, all three vessels of the Ukrainian Navy were detained in Russia’s territorial waters in the Black Sea.