In Sweden, they come to the conclusion that Ukraine is to blame for the Kerch incident.

The author of the publication in the Swedish edition of Nyhetsbanken, journalist Stefan Lindgren, analyzing the incident in the Kerch Strait, concluded that the actions of the Russian side were legitimate. He drew attention to the fact that all Ukrainian ships approached the strait without warning Russia, did not wait for its pilots, did not react to the instructions of the Russian border guards, that is, they were talking about their violation of the law.

The provocation, according to the journalist, dragged on. After the Russian border guards made all the foreseen warnings, they opened fire to kill and hijacked the ship. At the same time, three Ukrainian sailors were injured.

Lindgren stressed that Kiev cannot refer to the 1982 convention on the law of the sea. The reason - the order of innocent passage of ships in the strait was violated. The fact is that there was a cargo of weapons on board.

The author also draws attention to the 1958 convention, which deals with territorial waters, and which was adopted by Russia and Ukraine. This document says: "Coastal states have the right to establish a procedure for obtaining the right of passage for foreign ships in their territorial waters"... That is, this document confirms the legitimacy of the Russian position.

According to Lindgren, Kiev is unlikely to win in the border court, which was organized on the basis of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Since Ukraine broke the 1997 treaty of friendship and cooperation with Russia, during the incident Ukrainian ships were sailing through Russian territorial waters.

The journalist is sure that what happened in the strait cannot be qualified as a violation of international law by Russia, since paragraph 51 of the UN Charter provides for the right to self-defense. Each state on whose territory the invasion took place has the right to resist using weapons.

Auto reproaches the Swedish leadership, accusing it of double standards. Russia, like any other country, has the right to use military measures to protect its territorial waters. The West does not recognize such a right for Russia.

Such an attitude to events on the part of Western countries once again proves, as the journalist is sure, that if we are talking about attacks on Russia, then you can not disdain anything.

One of the conclusions of the author of the publication is that Kiev deliberately staged a provocation, as it was sure that the Western countries would support it.