“The consular service, in cooperation with interested parties, takes a set of measures to release the Ukrainian sailor captured by pirates,” UNIAN quotes Kirilicha.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced a pirate attack on a cargo ship near the port of Douala off the coast of Cameroon, as a result of which three Russians were captured by unknown persons.
Garegin Martirosyan, spokesman for the Russian diplomatic mission in Cameroon, said that Nigerian pirates allegedly captured the Russians from the Marmalaita cargo ship.