Russia has spread yet another dangerous misinformation. The aggressor country in the Black Sea mined the recommended routes from the Bosphorus to Odessa and claims that these are supposedly Ukrainian mines.
Andrey Klimenko, co-founder of the Black Sea Institute for Strategic Studies, editor-in-chief of BlackSeaNews, announced this with reference to a warning to shipowners signed by the captain of the seaport of Sochi Vyacheslav Rumyantsev and dated March 18.
In it, ship captains are warned about the threat of undermining allegedly by mines Ukrainian Navy drifting in the Black Sea.
– According to the information announced by the Hydrographic Service of the Russian Federation in PRP No. 116, due to stormy conditions, the anchor mines installed by the Ukrainian Navy on the approaches to the ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chernomorsk, Yuzhny (about 420 mines of the YAM and YARM types) were torn off. Please take special care when sailing in the southwestern and northwestern parts of the Black Sea due to the possibility of detonation on drifting mines, the warning says.
Photo: Andriy Klymenko
According to the sources of the publication, the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation mined the paths of commercial ships from the Bosporus in the direction of Odessa, and all this is covered by a fake about “Ukrainian mines blown by a storm”.
Klymenko noted that in principle, it is impossible to count the number of mines drifting in a stormy sea, that is, only the one who installed them can do this.
He believes that it is necessary to immediately introduce a permanent mine sweeper into the Black Sea th NATO group.
