Global News

Russia’s grouping in the Azov Sea was reinforced by a small anti-submarine “Yeisk” navy of the Russian Federation. According to the “Ukrainian Military Portal” , on the eve of the ship passed the arch of the bridge near Kerch in the direction of the Azov Sea.

The portal notes that “Yeisk” was launched in 1989 at the Leninsky Smith Factory (“Smith on Rybalsky”) in Kyiv. In 1990, he became part of the 181st Division of Small Anti-Submarine Ships of the 184th Brigade of the Protection of the Water Area of ​​the Black Sea Fleet of the USSR Navy with a base in the city of Poti in Georgia.

After the collapse of the USSR, the ship was relocated to Sevastopol, and with the creation of the Novorossiysk VMB of the Black Sea Fleet in the 90’s, the ship was part of the unit was relocated to Novorossiysk and was not subject to the division of the fleet. In 2017, he was undergoing after-repair repair at a seized 13 shipyard in Sevastopol.

Recall that on November 25, 2018, two small armored artillery boats “Berdyansk” and “Nikopol”, as well as the rails “Yana Kapu”, carried out a planned transition from Odessa to Berdyansk to create a new Navy base in the Azov Sea. In the morning of the same day, a Russian warship carried a tram of a tug “Yana Kapu” not far from the Kerch Strait. Nobody was injured from the crew of the tug. After that, the Russian side blocked the passage through the Kerch Strait . Ukrainian ships stood near the Kerch Strait until the evening of November 25 and decided to return to Odessa. After the start of the movement, Russian border guards began to persecute Ukrainian ships, and then they used weapons, attacking them. The ships were captured, and 24 crew members were captured..

Subsequently, so-called courts in the annexed Crimea arrested them for two months. After that, the seamen were taken to a SIZO in Moscow . They are all accused of allegedly illegally crossing the Russian border. Later all Ukrainian sailors recognized themselves as prisoners of war in Russia.

In mid-January 2019, the courts in Moscow considered the issue of extending the preventive measure for seafarers. The petition of lawyers concerning the treatment of them as prisoners of war or the change of preventive measures of the judge was rejected and extended to them until April 24-26. A similar decision was made in April, continuing the arrest of seamen by the middle of summer 2019. Більше читайте тут: https://tsn.ua/ato/rosiya-posilila-viyskovu-prisutnist-v-azovskomu-mori-1375020.html