“At present, the investigator went to the scene to establish all the circumstances of the incident,” the agency’s website said in a statement.

The chief physician of the Temryuk central district hospital, Andrei Shatalin, told RIA Novosti that the Ukrainian sailor, taken from a ship near Taman with signs of poisoning, is in critical care.

“He is alive, his grave condition is in intensive care. Signs of poisoning have a place to be. It seems like some kind of technical alcohol ... Some kind of alcohol-containing drink (poisoned. - RT), ”Shatalin said.

Earlier, the Rosmorrechflot reported that two people died as a result of methyl alcohol poisoning on board a tanker in the Black Sea. A message to the Naval Rescue and Coordination Center Novorossiysk from the captain of the ship “Magus” (Panama flag) arrived on the night of Tuesday, August 20. It was clarified that on board the tanker were two people with signs of methyl alcohol poisoning.