“The tug Merkury has entered the port of Kerch and is now on the dock,” RIA Novosti quotes Alexei Volkov, director general of the Crimean seaports.

Earlier it was reported that the rescuers who were engaged in the search for the sailors missing in the Kerch Strait said they did not find either boats or life jackets on the surface of the sea.

According to Rosmorrechflot, there were 32 people on two vessels: 12 people were rescued, 10 bodies were taken aboard, 10 are missing.