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[-] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

Now that's he doing 2200km away from home? Surely nothing wrong. 🙄

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Spy Plane

Must have been one hell of a spy plane! Other pilots couldn't see them at all!

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

reminds of that time canada got mad for the same thing in the south china sea lmao.

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago

RAF pilots ought to be careful filming while they're in the cockpit, accidents happen! 🫣

[-] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

Ain't that a Russian body of water??

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 days ago

The united nations convention on the law of the sea, which both UK and RF have signed, means somewhere between 3 and 12 nautical miles from the coast is classed as a nations territorial waters, so a good chunk of it would be administered by the RF, but not the whole thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea

obligatory the USA has not signed onto this cinvention, despite citing FREEDOM of NAVIGATION every time they send their bloody warships anywhere

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

If it can be said to 'belong' to anyone, it would be Turkiye. They decide who gets in/out and who doesn't.

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

Nope, just like the north sea is international waters.

https://armyrecognition.com/news/aerospace-news/2026/uk-scrambles-two-typhoon-fighter-jets-as-a-russian-strategic-bomber-approaches-british-airspace

Only a certain portion off the coast is considered sovereign airspace.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just like how the US intercepts international boats delivering aid to Cuba. And how Israel hijacks European boats off the coast of Greece.

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

What does blockades and sanctions have to do with comparing the black sea and the north see to show that most of it is international waters?

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

What does nobody else from the West abiding by "the rules" have to do with "the rules"?

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

What rule was the british plane breaking?

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

It's not, just as the north sea is not a british body of water.

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