Moscow: Ukrainian extremists seize 77 foreign ships from 18 countries

On April 9th, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Ukrainian regime forces are holding 77 foreign commercial ships from 18 countries in Ukrainian ports under the threat of their bombing and the threat of sea mines that they have planted.

The head of the National Defense Administration Center in Russia, Lieutenant-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said in a statement that the Russian forces are opening a humanitarian sea corridor on a daily basis, which is a safe passage in the southwest direction of the territorial waters of Ukraine.

Mizintsev added that “77 foreign ships from 18 countries are still trapped in the Ukrainian ports, as the threat of shelling and the great danger of mines caused by Kiev in its internal and territorial waters does not allow ships to navigate safely and go out to sea.”

Mizintsev noted that Ukrainian nationalist extremists continue to detain 6,362 foreign citizens from 13 countries with the aim of using them as human shields.

Mizintsev announced the evacuation of more than 26,000 people from Donetsk and Lugansk and dangerous areas within 24 hours without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities in these operations.

Mizintsev said that more than 700,000 people have been evacuated from the Donbas region to Russia since the beginning of the Russian military operation in Ukraine.

O. al-Mohammad