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A cargo ship with Ukrainian crew sank in early January near the Turkish coast did not transport coal from the occupied territories. This information has been confirmed by Turkish diplomats.
Channel 24 announced that the Panamanian-flagged vessel aboard a Ukrainian crew aboard a ship sank along the Turkish coast. Following the tragedy, four Ukrainian citizens died. The freighter was carrying coal from the Azov port in the Rostov region of Russia to the port of Samsun in Turkey
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We now have an official response. from our Turkish friends that there was no coal from the occupied territories on this ship, but we have objective information that Russia is trying to export coal from the occupied territories. We will work to prevent this,
– said the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pavel Klimkin, at a joint press conference with his Turkish counterparts, according to Interfax.
According to him, Ukraine and Turkey unambiguously discussed the prohibition of access of Turkish vessels temporarily occupied territory of Crimea
It should be noted that MinTOTI has to repeatedly pointed out the infringing ships used by Russia for illegal activities. Recently, a tragic incident occurred with two ships flying the Tanzanian flag near the Kerch Strait. The tankers took over the handling of the fuel and killed 11 crew members. In the Ukrainian Ministry, some: Russian vessels involved in an illegal distribution of gas to Syria
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