"According to our observations, our gas fields are being further occupied. The towers to our island Snake for two miles became closer. Regarding the situation that is currently developing in the Sea of ??Azov, we recorded almost 116 detentions of the movement of ships, "said Igor Voronchenko, Commander of the Ukrainian Navy.

If, in the pre-war period, the ships' delay in checking never lasted more than two hours, now it can drag on for three days, which leads to very serious losses. "Shipowners lose up to 15 thousand dollars a day because of the fact that the vessels are in the Kerch Canal," added Deputy Director of the Mariupol Port Yuri Balan.

This is a direct blow to the owners of ships that work with Ukraine, along the Mariupol and Berdyansk ports. Now the ships stand in line near the Kerch Strait. "This applies only to those ships that are sent to Ukraine or exit from Ukrainian ports. To protect the Crimean bridge overtook ships. From the Caspian Sea to Azov came missile ships that fired on the Syrian opposition cruise missiles. This armada on Azov is confronted only Mariupol detachment of maritime protection in the composition of the United forces of two light ships, fifteen boats with machine guns against missiles, "the TSN.

"The last example of this week, when the ships of the FSB checked the Ukrainian ship" Baron "at a distance of 4 miles from our coast, this is the closest distance in my memory where our ships stopped," said Nikolai Levitsky, deputy commander of the Mariupol maritime detachment protection. Six kilometers is already in direct line of sight from the Azov beaches.

Recall, according to the State Border Service of Ukraine, from April 30, the occupiers of the Russian Federation stop Ukrainian ships daily to inspect and identify the ship's crew. Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan said on July 11 that from the end of April Russian border guards detained almost 100 Ukrainian ships in the Sea of ??Azov.