Any ships cruising in the Black and Azov Seas may become victims of mines scattered there by the Russians. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky warned about this, speaking to the Parliament of Norway.

He said that our ports have been blocked by the invaders since the first days of a full-scale invasion..

" Some ships were simply captured. This is piracy for the sake of stealing cargo. Several ships were hit by fire. But the blockade of ports was implemented by the Russian Federation not just by the forces of the fleet. They mined the sea. And now the mines are laid by Russian forces and drifting by the sea. This is a danger for everyone, for any ships of any country in the Black Sea region,"

The President also said that several mines had already been cleared in a timely manner: in the Bosphorus, near Bulgaria and the coast of Romania.

“I don’t even want to imagine what will happen if one of these mines cannot be defused in time. Who will suffer then Perhaps, ferries, God forbid, or passenger liners, merchant ships or tankers, undermining which can lead not only to human casualties, but also to a large-scale environmental disaster. And then Russia will again say, as always: that it’s not her,"

Zelensky stressed that special attention should be paid to the acts of Russian crime at sea, as this is one of the greatest threats to international security since the Second World War..

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Recall, on March 19, the project manager at the Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies and the editor-in-chief of BlackSeaNews Andrey Klimenko said that the Russian military mined the sea routes from the Bosphorus to Odessa. We are talking about the territory where the recommended routes for commercial vessels are laid..

Klymenko noted that the seaport of Sochi subsequently blamed Ukraine for this and said that because of the storm, the mines were starting to drift.. The expert claims that NATO should introduce its Permanent Mine-Sweeping Group there.