MOSCOW—Russia said on June 23 it fired warning shots and dropped bombs in the path of a British destroyer sailing in the Black Sea off the coast of the Crimea peninsula, which Russia seized and annexed from Ukraine.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence countered that no Russian warning shots were fired at the Royal Navy’s HMS Defender, which sailed into the Black Sea earlier this month, and it didn’t recognize claims that bombs had been dropped in the warship’s path.
