Originally Posted by
etudiant
Does anyone know how far offshore the ship was when hit?
If the NATO surveillance aircraft shared the location data with the Ukraine, do they become de facto co belligerents subject to Russian jamming/attack?
Most reports suggest around 65Nm offshore. Ukraine certainly has the capability to supply it's own targeting data at that range, but could equally well have used surveillance data from another country.
In either case what difference does it make? Whatever term you use, many western nations have been making substantial contributions to the Ukrainian war effort and could in no sense be described as neutral. Russia knows this and if they felt that they would gain an advantage by expanding the scope of their war, you can be sure that they would not need a legal justification. Direct confrontation with NATO would be catastrophic for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.