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Essay: HMS Defender incident – what the law of the sea says

Russian image allegedly showing British Royal Navys Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender

In an article first published on The Conversation, ANDREW SERDY, professor of the public international law of the sea at the University of Southampton, looks at this week’s tense encounter between a British warship and Russian ships and planes off the coast of the Crimean Peninsula…