According to RIA Novosti, a group of specialists inspected the water area and territory of the seaport of Mariupol.

During the inspection, the facts of mining the territory and flooding of civilian ships were recorded.

At the same time, it is noted that military investigators examined the boat of the Ukrainian Navy "Kremenchuk", abandoned at the berth by the retreating troops, and the skeleton of the warship "Donbass", destroyed by fire.

After the investigators found another civilian ship, which was sunk by militants in the waters near the port.

Earlier, the chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed investigators to open a criminal case and investigate the shelling of a monastery in the Lugansk People's Republic by Ukrainian nationalists.