With reporting by Christopher Miller in Kyiv.
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) says it has seized a Russian tanker that Moscow allegedly used to block three Ukrainian naval vessels before detaining them and 24 Ukrainian sailors in November near Crimea.The SBU said in a statement posted on its Facebook page July 25 that an investigation revealed that Russia’s Federal Security Service and Border Guard Service used a tanker named Neyma to “illegally block the movement of the Ukrainian naval vessels Nikopol and Berdyansk, and the military tug Yani Kapu, in the Kerch Strait” before “illegally” detaining Ukrainian sailors and the three vessels.According …read more
Source: Voice of America
