[BenarNews] Bangladesh blocked a Russian ship from entering a local port just before Christmas due to U.S. sanctions on the vessel linked to Moscow’s war in Ukraine, but the cargo will be ferried to land via another ship, officials told BenarNews on Thursday.The Ursa Major (also known as the Sparta III) was scheduled to dock at the port of Mongla in southwestern Bangladesh on Dec. 24 and unload cargo destined for the nation’s first nuclear power plant, which Russia is building, according to a source at the Bangladeshi foreign ministry.
Now there’s a thought to freeze the marrow in one’s bones. But is it as terrifying as the nuclear power plant Russia has been building for Egypt? How many others is Russia building in the more interesting corners of the world?
But Bangladeshi authorities denied the ship permission to dock at the riverside port after officials got a letter from the American Embassy in Dhaka notifying the government that the Ursa Major was on a list of Russian ships sanctioned by the United States as a result of Moscow’s invasion and war in Ukraine.