{"id":1498677,"date":"2022-05-31T16:45:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T20:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498677"},"modified":"2022-05-31T16:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T20:45:27","slug":"fact-check-no-the-uk-has-not-sent-warships-to-the-black-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-the-uk-has-not-sent-warships-to-the-black-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, The UK Has Not Sent Warships To The Black Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-no-the-uk-has-not-sent-warships-to-the-black-sea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498677&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/m07XE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims the U.K. has sent warships to the Black Sea to break up a Russian naval blockade.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While the U.K. has discussed the possibility of helping to end the Russian blockade, a government spokesperson confirmed there are currently no plans to send British warships to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A recently declassified U.S. intelligence report reveals that a Russian naval blockade has halted maritime trade out of Ukraine, which in turn has strained the global food supply chain, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/05\/24\/naval-blockade-food-supply-ukraine-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a>. Ukraine is the world\u2019s fifth-largest exporter of wheat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/2\/17\/infographic-russia-ukraine-and-the-global-wheat-supply-interactive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al-Jazeera<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/m07XE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> shared on Facebook, which has garnered over 400,000 views, claims the U.K. has sent its navy to break the blockade. \u201cPUTIN bewildered! UK sends warships to black sea to break Russia\u2019s grain blockade in Ukraine,\u201d reads the video\u2019s title. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/25\/fact-check-us-ship-attacked-by-russian-warship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Was A US Navy Ship Attacked By A Russian Warship?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This claim is false. While the U.K. has discussed with its allies the possibility of sending warships to break the Russian blockade, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/ukraine-war-royal-navy-russia-b2086309.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Independent<\/a>, there is no evidence the country has done so. There is no mention of such a plan on the websites of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/search\/news-and-communications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.K. government<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalnavy.mod.uk\/news-and-latest-activity\/operations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalnavy.mod.uk\/news-and-latest-activity\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Navy<\/a>. There is likewise no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Royal+Navy+dospatched+to+Black+sea&#038;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&#038;oq=Royal+Navy+dospatched+to+Black+sea&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j33i10i160l3j33i10i299j33i10i22i29i30l5.7139j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reporting<\/a> about the Royal Navy being dispatched to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin\u2019s despicable blockade of Odesa is preventing food getting to people who need it,\u201d said a U.K. government spokesperson in an email to Check Your Fact. \u201cWe will continue to work intensively with international partners to find ways to resume the export of grain from Ukraine. However, there are no current plans to deploy UK warships to the Black Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the Montreux Convention, which regulates maritime traffic in the Black Sea, warships are required to provide 15 days\u2019 notice to the Turkish Government before entry, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.tr\/implementation-of-the-montreux-convention.en.mfa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turkish government<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook claims the U.K. has sent warships to the Black Sea to break up a Russian naval blockade.Verdict: False While the U.K. has discussed the possibility<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1498719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}