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| 70 foreign ships remain blocked in Ukrainian ports |
| 2022-07-05 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] Dozens of foreign ships are still unable to leave the Black Sea ports due to mines and the threat of shelling from Ukraine. This was announced at a briefing on July 4 by the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev . "In six ports (Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhny), 70 foreign ships from 16 states remain blocked. The threat of shelling and the high mine danger created by official Kiev do not allow ships to freely go to the open sea," said the Colonel General. Mizintsev stressed that the Russian Armed Forces have created the necessary conditions for the operation of two maritime humanitarian corridors, which are safe lanes for the movement of ships. Detailed information about the order of their functioning is transmitted every 15 minutes via VHF radio on international channels in English and Russian. Meanwhile, the Kyiv authorities "continue to do everything possible to evade interaction with representatives of foreign states and ship-owning companies in resolving the issue of ensuring the safe exit of blocked ships to assembly areas," said a representative of the Ministry of Defense. At the same time, he emphasized, there is still a danger to navigation and damage to port infrastructure from the drift of Ukrainian mines torn from anchor along the coast of the Black Sea states. "The Russian Federation is taking the whole range of measures to ensure the safety of civil navigation in the waters of the Black and Azov Seas," Mizintsev said. |
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