Near the Berdyansk Coast Guard of the Russian FSB detained a Ukrainian vessel Amadore on Saturday night, RFE / RL reported..

This was reported by the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs Foundation, the editor-in-chief of the Black See News, Andrei Klimenko.

"This is the ninety-ninth detention directly at sea (since May 17, 2018): the Ukrainian bulk carrier AMADORE has been searched for more than 10 hours. On the night of Saturday, the coast guard of the FSB detained him on the way from Mariupol near Berdyansk, "Klimenko wrote on his Facebook page.

According to him, the ship was detained after midnight, and at 10:00 am the ship was still standing.

"As a rule, such detention lasts about 3 hours," he said..

Klimenko added that on the way to the Azov Sea this ship was awaiting permission in the Kerch Strait for 119 hours.

Since the second half of April, Russian border guards began to inspect foreign vessels following to / from Ukrainian ports. According to the Ministry of Infrastructure, as of July 16, the number of detainees for inspection by Russian border guards was 148.