“Today at 12:00 (4:00 Moscow time. - RT ), the duty officer of the Crisis Management Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in the Sakhalin Region received information that ice had broken off in the area of Cape Svobodny in Mordvinova Bay. As a result, about three hundred fishermen were cut off from the coast, ”the ministry said.
It is specified that 18 rescuers and 14 pieces of equipment were involved in the evacuation.
In December 2019, the evacuation of six fishermen and a child from an ice floe in the Ivanovo Region was reported.