"On October 25, the crew of the large anti-submarine ship" Vice-Admiral Kulakov "prevented the seizure of a civilian ship by pirates in the Atlantic Gulf of Guinea," the message says.
It is noted that the crew received a distress signal from the container ship "Lucia" flying the flag of Panama, reporting that armed men were trying to seize the ship in a high-speed boat.
A helicopter carrying the Marine Corps took off from the anti-submarine ship.
At the sight of the helicopter, the pirates left the ship and sailed on a boat towards the coast, after which the anti-terror group from the Russian ship freed the crew of the Lucia.
On March 2, it was reported that a detachment of ships from the Baltic Fleet, consisting of the Stoyky corvette and the Kola tanker, would escort two foreign merchant ships to protect them from a possible pirate attack.