Blocked by sunken Russian ships, Ukraine's navy stays defiant

Yahoo! News ^ | 3/9/2014 | Katherine Haddon

[Pikachu_Dad]

Only because the non-Czarists were long since removed.

If the Ukraniane ships are to escape, they must blow the obstruction.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Or they should scuttle their own ships, preferably enlarging the blockage and escape by dingy.

[RitchieAprile]

escape? escape where? I can imagine the Istanbul port captain
trying to figure out mooring for a dozen leaking soviet era rustbuckets. Maybe some ship broker can get a few hryvnas
per ton as scrap for all their vessels.

The EU might donate a few Boston Whalers to replace them.

[Cronos]

it won't affect Romania or Bulgaria. Russia is not expansionist -- it views Ukraine as the birthplace of it's civilisation, just as the Serbs viewed kosovo as their country's birthplace

Turkey is different -- it's been Russia's enemy since 1453 and the fall of constantinople -- Russia see's itself as conquering that city.

Romania and Bulgaria are fellow Orthodox and not so close as Ukrainians (who are heavily related to Muscowites)