Skip to content

Russian navy captures two Ukrainian commercial ships.

Image Credit: navyclippings.nl

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Russiannavy captured two Ukrainian civil ships in Romanian waters, 22 miles from Zmiinyi (Snake) Island.

The bulk carriers captured are named Afina and Princess Nichole. They were enroute to Constanta, Romania when they encountered a Russian warship. Ukrainian officials said that upon encountering the Russian warship, the bulk carriers’ AIS systems were shut off and communication stopped. Both Ukrainian ships were taken to the Black Sea.

More details to follow.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: