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Russian Navy stops commercial vessel hijacking
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.New from a post by Military Informant page in VKontakte  According to the Zvezda TV channel, on Monday, October 25, the crew of the Vice-Admiral Kulakov BPK prevented the pirates from seizing a civilian ship in the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean.At about 13:00, a Russian ship received a distress signal from a container ship "Lucia" sailing under the flag of Panama from the Republic of Togo to the Republic of Cameroon. An attempted hijacking of the vessel by unknown armed men in a fast boat was reported. The crew of the container ship took refuge in the engine room. A Ka-27PS helicopter with a Marine Corps unit was immediately lifted from the Russian ship and immediately headed to the area of the incident. When a military helicopter approached, the pirates left the ship, got into a fast boat and headed towards the coast at full speed. The helicopter overflew the ship. Later, an anti-terror group was landed on board the container ship from the VPK "Vice-Admiral Kulakov", which freed the crew and proceeded to inspect the ship. Posted by: badanov 2021-10-26 |
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