“On May 24, Russian sappers cleared the port in Mariupol, specialists of the Black Sea Fleet transported from the fairway a Ukrainian border guard ship flooded by the so-called Azov — that is, representatives of the nationalist battalions.

As a result, five foreign ships were able to go to sea,” she said during a briefing.

Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that the port of Mariupol began to operate as usual.