Turkey disposes stray naval mine in Bosphorus
Date
3/26/2022 1:09:36 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Turkey resumed marine traffic in the Bosporus on March 26 after
it was suspended for nearly four hours following the discovery of a
stray naval mine, Trend reports citing Hurriyet Daily
News .
A team of divers has 'deactivated' an old naval mine floating in
the Bosporus, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has said.
Russia's main intelligence agency on March 21 said several
hundred mines had drifted into the Black Sea after breaking off
from cables near Ukrainian ports.“After the start of the Russian
special military operation, Ukrainian naval forces had deployed
barriers of mines around the ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chernomorsk
and Yuzhny,” the FSB security service said. The cables were cut due
to storms, and some of them were floating freely in the western
Black Sea, pushed along by wind and the currents, it added.
Ukraine, however, dismissed the claim, saying that it was
disinformation aimed at closing off parts of the sea.
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