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| Bulk carrier flying the flag of Panama hit a mine in the Black Sea |
| 2023-12-29 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] In the Black Sea, a bulk carrier flying the flag of Panama, following the so-called alternative grain route promoted by Kiev, was blown up by a mine. This was reported on December 28 by the press service of the defense forces of southern Ukraine. The ship was heading to one of the Danube ports to load grain. “In the Black Sea, there was an explosion on <...> a sea mine of a civilian ship flying the flag of Panama,” says a message on the Telegram channel. The ship lost control and a fire started on the upper deck. Two sailors were injured, one of them was hospitalized. Tugboats were sent to the bulk carrier for delivery to the port. As Regnum reported , on November 18, a bulk carrier carrying grain from Odessa, flying the flag of Liberia, hit a mine in the Black Sea. According to MarineTraffic, the bulk carrier was heading to Romania. In turn, the Ukrainian publication Dumskaya denied this information, saying that the Georgia S vessel, which left the Odessa port of Yuzhny with wheat, was not damaged when a mine exploded in the Black Sea. It is clarified that the captain of the ship flying the flag of Liberia gave a distress signal after a mine explosion. But the ship was not damaged, as the anti-personnel mine, according to the publication, exploded 100 meters from the cargo ship. In October, in the Black Sea, in one of the corridors for the export of agricultural products from Ukraine, an object similar to a sea mine was discovered. The Joint Coordination Center reported that the Sapphire tugboat and the SAR-02 search and rescue boat left Odessa to inspect the site. Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Mikhail Popov said that a powerful storm in the Black Sea at the end of November could have scattered anchor mines laid by Kiev militants. This poses a danger to civilian ships, which are being undermined one after another. |
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