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June last year saw a BBC news report from onboard the british battleship HMS Defender. We can ask just how convenient it was for the BBC camera crew and reporter to accompany the ship into waters off the coast of Ukraine but its just obvious. The news report showed footage of the brinksmanship of the British ship and its ongoing confrontations with Russian ships and jets.
We were treated to the laughable line of " to paraphrase, the " Royal Navy is out there making sure that international laws and order are being respected" The illegal attack on Iraq all but forgotten apparently
After the tooing and froing the report ends.
There is a written article on the BBC website that is something of a transcript of the news report but with an add on in the last sentence that is crucial in understanding what was really going on other than the Brits being good and the Russians being bad
The last sentence, only found in the last sentence of the written article, they are hoping nobody bothers reading it to the end? I think so............. states..........
So, I did some digging and it's true
At the same time HMS Defender was buzzing the coast of Crimea and having face offs with the Russian military it had signed an agreement to build two naval bases in Odessa just in the same neck of the woods as the huge Russian naval base of Sevastopol AND the agreement was signed where?.........onboard HMS Defender itself
Related sources below
The video report from the BBC news programme
written transcript article on the same
We were treated to the laughable line of " to paraphrase, the " Royal Navy is out there making sure that international laws and order are being respected" The illegal attack on Iraq all but forgotten apparently
After the tooing and froing the report ends.
There is a written article on the BBC website that is something of a transcript of the news report but with an add on in the last sentence that is crucial in understanding what was really going on other than the Brits being good and the Russians being bad
The last sentence, only found in the last sentence of the written article, they are hoping nobody bothers reading it to the end? I think so............. states..........
It said the UK and Ukraine had signed an agreement to jointly build warships and construct two naval bases.
So, I did some digging and it's true
At the same time HMS Defender was buzzing the coast of Crimea and having face offs with the Russian military it had signed an agreement to build two naval bases in Odessa just in the same neck of the woods as the huge Russian naval base of Sevastopol AND the agreement was signed where?.........onboard HMS Defender itself
Related sources below
The video report from the BBC news programme
written transcript article on the same

HMS Defender: Russian jets and ships shadow British warship
More than 20 jets and two coastguard ships shadow HMS Defender as it sails near Crimea's coast.
www.bbc.co.uk