Kherson authorities: 12 foreign ships cannot leave the port because of Ukrainian forces

Deputy Head of the Military and Civil Administration of the Kherson region, Kirill Strimosov, announced that there are 12 foreign ships in the port of Kherson that cannot enter the Black Sea due to the closure of the transit passage by the Ukrainian army.

“Twelve foreign ships are still in the port, most of them are Turkish, and there is also a Syrian ship and a ship flying the Seychelles flag,” RIA Novosti news agency quoted Strimosov as telling reporters.

Strimosov stressed that the ships could not leave the port due to the actions of the Ukrainian army, which mined the exit to the Black Sea through the mouth of the Dnieper/Bug near the city of Ochakov in the Mykolaiv region.

It is noteworthy that during the Russian special operation to protect the population of Donbass, the Russian armed forces took control of the Kherson region and part of the Zaporozhye region.

Inas Abdulkareem