{"id":1410020,"date":"2022-03-30T12:15:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410020"},"modified":"2022-03-30T12:16:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:16:01","slug":"ukraine-says-russia-planting-mines-in-black-sea-as-shipping-perils-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-says-russia-planting-mines-in-black-sea-as-shipping-perils-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine says Russia planting mines in Black Sea as shipping perils grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraine-says-russia-planting-mines-in-black-sea-as-shipping-perils-grow%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410020&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-30T142249Z_1_LYNXNPEI2T0TG_RTROPTP_0_UKRAINE-CRISIS-TURKEY-OBJECT_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: An oil tanker passes through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea in Istanbul\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: An oil tanker passes through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea in Istanbul July 20, 2012.  REUTERS\/Osman Orsal\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 30, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Jonathan Saul<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013     Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of planting mines in the Black Sea and said some of those munitions had to be defused off Turkey and Romania as risks to vital merchant shipping in the region grow.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Sea is a major shipping route for grain, oil and oil products. Its waters are shared by Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia and Turkey as well as Ukraine and Russia. <\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s military took control of waterways when it invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, in what Moscow calls a \u201cspecial operation\u201d.   <\/p>\n<p>In recent days Turkish and Romanian military diving teams have been involved in defusing stray mines around their waters.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s foreign ministry said Russia was using naval mines as \u201cuncontrolled drifting ammunition\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was these drifting mines that were found March 26-28, 2022 off the coasts of Turkey and Romania,\u201d it said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The ministry said \u201cthe deliberate use by Russia of drifting sea mines turns them into a de facto weapon of indiscriminate action, which threatens, first of all, civil navigation and human life at sea in the whole waters not only of the Black and Azov Seas, but also of the Kerch and Black Sea Straits\u201d.   <\/p>\n<p>Russian officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. <\/p>\n<p>ACCUSATIONS<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month Russia\u2019s main intelligence agency accused Ukraine of laying mines to protect ports and said several hundred of the explosives had broken from cables and drifted away. Kyiv dismissed that account as disinformation.    <\/p>\n<p>A Ukrainian foreign ministry official told Reuters separately that the sea mines were of the \u201cR-421-75\u201d type, which were neither registered with or used by Ukraine\u2019s navy currently. <\/p>\n<p>The official said mines of this type \u2013 some 372 units \u2013 had been previously stored at Ukraine\u2019s 174th armament base in Sevastopol and were seized by Russia\u2019s military during its annexation of Crimea in 2014 \u2013 a move not recognised internationally.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia, using sea mines seized in 2014, deliberately provokes and discredits Ukraine to international partners,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s foreign ministry added separately. <\/p>\n<p>London\u2019s marine insurance market has widened the area of waters it considers high risk in the region and insurance costs have soared.    <\/p>\n<p>Five merchant vessels have been hit by projectiles \u2013 with one of them sunk \u2013 off Ukraine\u2019s coast with two seafarers killed, shipping officials say.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cVessels navigating in the Black Sea should maintain lookouts for mines and pay careful attention to local navigation warnings,\u201d ship insurer London P&#038;I Club said in an advisory note on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jonathan Saul; Editing by Gareth Jones)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: An oil tanker passes through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea in Istanbul July 20, 2012. 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