“We have taken the necessary measures regarding drifting mines.
We continue our fight non-stop.
We can safely say that there are no problems in shipping in our straits now, ”the Sabah newspaper quotes the minister.
On April 13, Akar said that the Turkish side had increased the level of readiness of sapper units and other services due to the continuing threat of drifting mines.
On March 19, the Russian FSB warned that anchor mines installed by the Ukrainian Navy could drift towards the Bosphorus Strait and further into the seas of the Mediterranean basin due to a broken cable.
At the same time, anchor mines were produced back in the first half of the 20th century; in storm conditions, they break away from the cables and drift freely in the western part of the Black Sea.