Moscow - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented on Monday an official protest for the provocation of Ukraine by transgressing its territorial waters in the Black Sea and violating the rules of the passage of the Navy of the neighboring country through that basin.

Moscow demands the convening of an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council to analyze this situation and warns that it will firmly stop any invasion of its sovereignty and security, the statement said.

Russia repeatedly warned the Kiev government and its Western clients about the danger of artificially triggering hysteria around the Azov Sea and the Kerch Strait, it points out.

Obviously, a well thought-out and planned provocation was aimed at creating another source of tension in that region and a new pretext for increasing sanctions against Russia, it stresses.

All this, apparently, also aimed to distract attention from internal political problems in Ukraine itself, the Foreign Ministry points out, in reference to the protests in cities of that nation due to the high cost of living and social demands.

This was confirmed by the intention of Kiev to impose martial law in the country, which in the light of the upcoming presidential elections of March 2019 seems very unwanted, it points out.

The Foreign Ministry shows its outrage before the attack of the Ukrainian radicals against Russian diplomatic facilities and the damage caused to them.

We demand that Kiev bring those responsible to justice, to ensure the immunity of the Embassy and the Russian Consulate General in Ukraine, in accordance with the rules of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, the text highlights.

Russia warns the Ukrainian side that the line followed by Kiev, in coordination with the United States and the European Union, to provoke a conflict with this country in the waters of the Azov and Black seas can have very serious consequences.