Occupiers' crime at sea has been one of the greatest threats to international security since World War II.
Any ships plying the Black and Azov Seas could fall victim to landmines planted by Russians there . The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky warned about this, addressing the Norwegian Parliament.
He said that our ports had been blocked by the occupiers since the first days of the full-scale invasion.
“About 100 ships cannot enter the Mediterranean. Some ships have just been hijacked. This is piracy for cargo theft. Several ships have come under fire. But the blockade of ports was implemented by Russia not just by navy. They mined the sea. And now mines are planted by Russian forces and drifting at sea. This is a danger for everyone, for any ship of any country in the Black Sea region, “Zelensky said.
The President also said that several mines had already been cleared in time: in the Bosphorus, near Bulgaria and the coast of Romania.
“I don't even want to imagine what will happen if one of these mines is not cleared in time. Who will be hurt? Maybe ferries, God forbid, or passenger liners, merchant ships or tankers, the detonation of which can lead not only to human casualties, but also to a large-scale environmental catastrophe. And then Russia will say again, as always: that it is not her, “he added.
Zelensky stressed that special attention should be paid to acts of Russian crime at sea, as this is one of the greatest threats to international security since World War II.
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It will be recalled that on March 19, Andrei Klimenko, project manager at the Black Sea Institute for Strategic Studies and editor-in-chief of BlackSeaNews, said that the Russian military had mined sea routes from the Bosphorus to Odessa. This is the area where the recommended routes for commercial vessels are laid.
Klimenko noted that the seaport of Sochi later accused Ukraine of this and said that due to the storm, mines are beginning to drift. The expert claims that NATO should deploy its Permanent Mining and Trawl Group there.
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