An undated recently taken hand out photograph received on March 28, 2003.shows the Sandown Class Minehunter HMS RAMSEY (M110), sailing from HM Naval Base Portsmouth en-route to the Gulf. REUTERS/Jack Russell/HO MD/jv
CONFLICT
Turkey Blocks Transit of Two UK-Supplied Minesweepers to Ukraine
The Turkish Center for Combatting Disinformation announced today that two UK-supplied Sandown Class mine countermeasures vessels will not be allowed to transit either strait connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. The government body cited Article 19 of the Montreux Straits Convention and claimed that since Ukraine is in a state of war and the UK is not a Black Sea nation that the transfer would be blocked.