“The return of boats and tugboat is not an act of goodwill. I consider these events ... as the implementation ... of the May decision of the International Maritime Tribunal, ”he wrote on his Facebook page.
He noted that Ukrainian experts will inspect the ships and give recommendations on how to return them to service as soon as possible.
Earlier, Russia in the neutral waters of the Black Sea handed over to Ukraine three Ukrainian warships, which were detained for violating the Russian border in the Kerch Strait in November last year.
The senator from the city of Sevastopol, a member of the Federation Council committee on the regulation and organization of parliamentary activities, Yekaterina Altabaeva, in an interview with the NSN, also commented on the return of ships to Ukraine.