Erosion of Maritime Rights by Ukrainian Marine Drones
Christian Hamann
On Friday, June 5, 2026, a full of 4 Ukrainian sea drones were detonated close the Romanian port of Constance on the Black Sea – 1 in the port and 3 at sea. Just like a fewer days earlier, erstwhile a akin drone with an explosive burden of 100 kg was thrown to the shore of a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, fortunately no 1 was injured. Kiev explained that drones were lost and were pushed off course by Russian disruptive signals.
Among the targets were Russian tankers belonging to the alleged shadow fleet, which Russia uses to export oil while circumventing sanctions. What is alarming, there have been no global protests.
However, since specified ships are not military targets, the Ukrainian hunt for them violates the fundamental rule of the Hague Convention that military and civilian facilities must be strictly separated. Rules 60 and 67 of the Law of the Sea, as amended by the San Remo Manual (1994), state that commercial vessel does not become a legitimate military target tIt is due to the fact that the gross from the economical activity generated by its cargo flows into the state budget and thus into the war register.
From the position of Ukraine's ecological action, they besides deserve a strong condemnation. Articles 35 and 55 of the Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Convention prohibit any action of war that may origin ‘extensive, long-term and serious environmental damage’.
The Ukrainian authorities' questioning of the principles of environmental work and humanitarian warfare is incompatible with their (oral) commitment to Western community of values. However, appropriate recipients of harsh criticism of their systematic violations should not be sought in Kiev but in the heart of the West. If we analyse the ongoing erosion of fundamental humanitarian principles in the war in Ukraine, we will find 2 perpetrators. 1 of them is the influential nucleus of war speculators, surrounded by a swarm of opportunistic supporters.
These well-known militarists in the MIC environment are only gaining the essential freedom to act under a grossly underestimated facade that undermines fundamental humanitarian principles. Mainstream media, (no)which is liable for this camouflage and so bears a crucial share of the work for these infringements. Sustainable coverage, as required at least by the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty for public media, remains residual. Idealist defenders of Western principles, for which supposedly military action is essential in Ukraine, have at best a suppressed voice in this planet of unilateral perspectives.
In this environment, militaristic radicals receive an unearned pass allowing them without hindrance to run an absurd arms race driven by public debt. Continuous escalation is performed simultaneously on respective levels.
First of all, a window for substantive negotiations is systematically closed, including by setting surreal preconditions, specified as “the complete withdrawal of Russia from occupied territories” (while calls for self-determination of conflict-affected populations are ignored). Secondly, Ukraine is increasingly equipped with weapons capable of carrying out attacks into Russia's territory (which, according to any legal interpretations, makes States supplying arms participants in the conflict). Third, Discriminative force on the Russian-speaking population is expanding (No usage of Russian localities names – cultural “discussion of everything Russian”), which exacerbates the full conflict since 2014. Fourthly, the volume of arms supply is increased, And five., their implementation is mainly carried out on a credit basis. This is planting a delayed ignition bomb, due to the fact that the only realistic way to repay these loans is by defeat and subsequent operation by Russia.
The sixth form of escalation of the war in Ukraine concerns violations by the MFIC of humanitarian principles and ecologically liable war. The consequences would be clearly visible if military censorship did not filter out all the information and the Kiev government did not silence critical media even before the start of the war. As a result, Western citizens and politicians can only indirectly realize the slaughter that actually takes place in this trench war where Cluster ammunition, depleted uranium (DU) missiles and now combat robots are used.
One way to accomplish this is to survey the war in Iraq, where truth, besides censored by the military, comes out only after the fact. The consequences of fighting in this country show similarities to the current situation in Ukraine, including the short- and long-term effects of the usage of cluster ammunition and radioactive missiles with impoverished uranium, as well as various forms of irresponsiblely accepted harm to the environment. nato-tribunal.de/Depleted-Uranium-Fakten
The tremendous strength of militarists in their unfair intellectual conflict with authentic defenders of Western values has a simple explanation – money. Under the protection of uncritical media, western (un)security policy is increasingly shaped by the influence of a clique of interests that derives tremendous profits from war and its escalation, not from its shortening, and much little from its final solution. futureuae.com/en-US/Mainpage/Item/10193/the-war-machine-will-the-military-industrial-complex-drive-the-us-toward-wars
This circle, known as the MIC (International Political and safety Committee), composed of representatives of the military, policy and the arms industry, is closely linked to the main financial institutions, to the degree that it would be more appropriate to call them the MFI (International Political and Financial Committee). This clip besides marked the war in Ukraine. The war in Afghanistan, which later lasted for 20 years, could have ended with the American triumph only 2 months after it began. Likewise there was a war in Ukraine. The settlement paper ready to sign was available after a fewer weeks, but was torpedoed, especially by the British side.
Whether the long-awaited democratic defeat of war speculators will win in due course is simply a key issue of Europe's survival. These militarists are seemingly determined to defend Ukraine (not the Ukrainian people!) to the last European.
