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Alex Ward, you're one of the hosts of the Worldly Podcast.

Can you walk us through what exactly happened between Russia and Ukraine

on Sunday morning?

So it's a very scary situation.

What could be a major escalation of tension between Russia and Ukraine

is developing right now off the coast of Crimea.

What we know is that three Ukrainian ships are traveling from Odessa,

which is a city with a port on the Black Sea, going through the Kirkstreet

to go into the sea of Azov towards Mariopol, which is a massive port for Ukraine

and very important to its economy.

Now, the Ukrainian Navy for years has said, like, hey, you know, this is part of our

waters. We have 2003 treaty to go through.

So no problem, right?

They've been doing this kind of stuff forever.

Okay.

For some reason this time, it looks like the Russians were quite unhappy with it.

What happens is is these three Ukrainian ships go through the straight.

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