Вчора, оголосивши «контртерористичну операцію» в північно-західній частині Чорного моря, кораблі ВМС РФ захопили в полон ще два цивільних українських судна.
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Yesterday, announcing a “counter-terrorist operation” in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, ships of the Russian Navy captured two more civilian Ukrainian ships.
The Athena tanker, located in the territorial sea of Romania, 22 miles from the Zmiiniy Island, received an open channel of communication and safety of navigation, a command to approach the Russian warship for inspection. The shipowner of the tanker “Athena” immediately informed all the competent authorities in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, monitoring the movement of ships in the area, maritime border guards recorded a sharp and illogical change of course by another ship under the Ukrainian flag. The Princess Nicole dry cargo ship from Romanian waters was also headed for Zmiiniy Island. Almost as soon as both civilian ships approached the Russian warships, the AIS was turned off and they stopped communicating. And this morning, the automatic identification systems of ships showed their stay 18 miles from the occupied Crimea.
Thus, Russian warships once again defiantly violated international maritime law, under the guise of a self-proclaimed counterterrorism operation, pirated two Ukrainian-flagged ships with nearly 50 civilians.
We will remind, the day before the same group of ships of the Russian Navy seized the Sapphire aircraft, which went to Zmiiniy Island with a humanitarian mission.