The Ministry of Defense of Russia assured this Sunday that it recovered the remains of the drones who attacked his fleet in the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol, illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, and stated that the aircraft used the so-called “grain corridor”, the security zone in the Black Sea demarcated for the export of Ukrainian grain.
“ The marine drones moved in a safe area of the ‘grain corridor,'” the Russian ministry said, without providing evidence, adding that at least one of the devices could have been launched “from a civilian vessel chartered by kyiv or its Western masters to export agricultural products from the ports of Ukraine”.
Moscow stated that some of the devices had “Canadian-made navigation modules”. It added that “the results of reading the memory recovered from a r navigation receptor allowed to establish that the launch of the marine drones was carried out on the coast near the city of Odessa”.
The New York Times: The attack on the ships Russians in Sevastopol on Saturday was inflicted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/scDdvalSqu
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Guterres worried
Russia, a country that daily drone bombs Ukrainian civilian facilities, decided to withdraw from the UN-brokered agreement
to export grain from Ukraine for the Black Sea after the attack. According to the Kremlin, the Ukrainians planned the operation with the help of British specialists, an assertion denied by both European countries.
In the raid against Sevastopol they were used nine aerial and seven marine drones, all of which were destroyed by defense systems, according to Moscow, which at the same time acknowledged damage to vessels, such as a minesweeper.
For his part, the Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, expressed his concern about the paralysis of maritime exports. Guterres delayed his trip to the Arab League summit to focus on the grain issue, said his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric.
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