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Russia: Ukrainian mines in Black Sea can drift to Bosphorus, Mediterranean

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 19 Mar 2022 19:58
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The storm can drift the 20th century-era mines toward other water bodies.

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  • Russia: Ukrainian mines in Black Sea can drift to Bosphorous, Mediterranean Sea
    A map shared on social media exhibiting mine placement in the western Black Sea.

On Saturday, Russia warned that mines that the Ukrainians had planted in the Black Sea against Russia could drift as far as the Strait of Bosphorous and the Mediterranean Sea.

"After the start of the Russian special military operation, Ukrainian naval forces had deployed barriers of mines around the ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny," said the FSB security service in a statement, noting that the mines are "dilapidated" and were manufactured in the first half of the 20th century.

Storms in the western Black Sea have slashed the cables of some of the mines free-floating in the area, as they were pushed by wind and currents. 

Given the direction of the currents "the floating of the mines toward the Bosphorus and then on to the Mediterranean is not excluded."

Russia has blocked Ukraine's access to the Black Sea since February 24 when it launched its military operation in Ukraine.

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In parallel, on February 27, Turkey closed the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles to Russian warships.

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The director of operations at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that a road designated as a humanitarian corridor out of Ukraine's Mariupol turned out to be mined.

During a BBC morning show, Dominik Stillhart said the International Committee of the Red Cross was leading a convoy of displaced Ukrainian civilians out of the southern port city on Sunday. He did not specify which faction was suspected of mining the route.

"Our people were leading that convoy. They arrived at the first checkpoint only to realize that the road they were supposed to take was actually mined," Stillhart stressed.

Furthermore, he added that the health aid charity is in talks with Russia and Ukraine to organize military-to-military talks and agree on roads and times for evacuations, "otherwise it will be difficult... to facilitate the agreement."

Russia announced several times opening humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to be evacuated from several Ukrainian cities amid the fighting, including the capital Kiev and Mariupol.

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