“Following radio conversations, the ship stopped its course and the boarding team landed on the bulk cargo ship,” the statement said.Īn official of the Turkish shipping company that owns the cargo ship told CNN that the barge was empty at the time of the inspection, in what was a “routine” journey to pick up grain from Danube ports to carry to European and Turkish docks. “In order to inspect the bulk cargo ship, a Ka-29 helicopter with a group of Russian servicemen was hoisted from the patrol ship Vasily Bykov,” the ministry said. Marine traffic websites currently shows the cargo vessel’s destination as the Romanian port of Sulina which is close to Izmail. The ministry claimed the ship – named Sukru Okan – was headed to the Ukrainian port of Izmail. “The Russian warship opened warning fire from automatic small arms fire to forcefully stop the vessel,” the statement said. Russia said the warship fired warning shots when the captain of the Palau-flagged dry cargo ship failed to respond to a request to stop for an inspection. Ukraine made a similar threat to ships traveling to Russian ports. Russia pulled out of a UN and Turkish-brokered deal in July that allowed Ukraine to move its grain via the Black Sea and warned that any ships headed to Ukraine would be treated as potentially carrying weapons. A Russian warship fired warning shots and boarded a cargo ship it claims was headed to Ukraine in the Black Sea on Sunday, according to Russia’s defense ministry.
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