KYIV, Dec 6 – Parliament has adopted a measure on the adjacent zone of Ukraine, which will actually increase the territory of control in the Black Sea.
The corresponding bill (No. 8361) in the second reading and in general was supported by 244 deputies at a plenary session of parliament on December 6.
According to the document, the adjacent zone of Ukraine will be the open sea belt, which is adjacent to the territorial sea of Ukraine, and whose outer border is at a distance of no more than 24 nautical miles (they are counted from the same reference lines as the width of the territorial sea of Ukraine). Usually, the territorial waters are 12 miles.
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