Moscow concerned at UK-Ukraine naval agreement in Black Sea region

A maritime security treaty signed this week between Ukraine and the United Kingdom drew a sharp response from the Kremlin on Friday, in particular with regard to a reference to the Azov Sea. "That is an internal sea of Russia. There can scarcely be talk of a joint approach there by Ukraine and the United Kingdom," Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said in Moscow. Russian forces control the entire shoreline of the Sea of Azov, which lies to the east of the Crimean Peninsula, and Moscow has annexed