“The process of returning small armored boats Berdyansk and Nikopol, as well as the tugboat Yana Kapu, captured last November, is already at the final stage,” Yermak quotes the New Time publication.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the preparations for the transfer to Ukraine of three warships, saying that the proposal originally made to Kiev all this time did not lose its relevance.

Ships without ammunition are planned to be transferred to Ukraine on the high seas.