Andrey Klimenko, project manager at the Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies and editor-in-chief of BlackSeaNews, said that the Russian military mined the sea routes from the Bosphorus to Odessa. During a conversation with UP journalists, he noted that the seaport of Sochi then blamed Ukraine for this and said that because of the storm, mines begin to drift.

" Another dangerous disinformation on the part of the enemy,"

In support of his words, he published a document dated March 18, which was signed by the captain of the seaport of Sochi, Vyacheslav Rumyantsev. It says that allegedly the Ukrainian Navy installed anchor mines on the approaches to their ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chernomorsk and Yuzhnoye.. But due to weather conditions, namely the beginning of a storm, they all came off, so now they pose a threat to navigation throughout the northwestern part of the Black Sea.

The UP claims that sources in the Navy confirm the dissemination by the occupiers of disinformation about mines allegedly drifting in the sea through the fault of Ukraine.

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" It requires the immediate introduction of the NATO Standing Mine-Sweeping Group into the Black Sea! "

BlackSeaNews showed on the map which part of the Black Sea was mined by the occupiers - recommended routes for commercial ships were laid there.

According to Klimenko, it is now unclear how many mines are drifting in the Black Sea: " ) only the one who installed them"