Detained Ukrainian Naval Boats Had Orders To Secretly Cross Russian Border - FSB

Detained Ukrainian Naval Boats Had Orders to Secretly Cross Russian Border - FSB

A document containing an order to make a secret passage from the port of Odessa in the Black Sea to the port of Berdyansk in the Sea of Azov had been found on board the seized Ukrainian boat Nikopol, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday.

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th November, 2018) A document containing an order to make a secret passage from the port of Odessa in the Black Sea to the port of Berdyansk in the Sea of Azov had been found on board the seized Ukrainian boat Nikopol, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday.

"During the search of the detained Ukrainian naval boats, a document was found on board the Nikopol vessel ... that contains direct orders to make a secret passage from Odessa to Berdyansk, with focus on covert approach to and navigation through the Kerch Strait," the FSB said in a statement.

Three vessels of the Ukrainian Navy, which participated in a provocation in the Kerch Strait, were seized on Sunday in the span of two hours and escorted to the Crimean port of Kerch.