“Ukrainian ships returned home. After captivity almost a year long, they entered Ochakov’s military harbor. They are met by military and civilians, ”the Ukrainian Channel Five website said in a statement.
On November 18, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the transfer of the tugboat Yana Kapu and the small armored artillery boats Nikopol and Berdyansk to Ukraine in neutral waters of the Black Sea, which were detained for violating the Russian border in the Kerch Strait in November 2018.
Later, the transfer was confirmed in Ukraine.
The commander of the Ukrainian Navy, Admiral Igor Voronchenko, accused the Russian side of the fact that toilets, sockets and shades were missing from the ships that had previously been detained in the Kerch Strait.