“During the detention procedure, the ship is brought into the port under guard, that is, it should have been launched specifically under the jurisdiction of Turkey’s guards if something really happened.
No arrest was made.
The ship is simply at anchor due to weather conditions.
A surveyor arrived on the ship, checked the cargo, this always happens,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
The head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region, Evgeny Balitsky, also said that the cargo ship Zhibek Zholy with grain was not detained in Turkey.
“The dry cargo ship has not been arrested, we did not have a warrant, our grain company, for this dry cargo ship.
Our company was only a transit country, the contract was concluded between the Tallinn and Turkish companies in this case.
It is unlikely that something negative will happen to this ship from the point of view of the law, ”he said on the air of the Russia 24 channel, his words are quoted by RIA Novosti.
Reuters reported earlier that Kyiv asked Ankara to detain and inspect a “Russian-flagged vessel” heading to Turkey, which transports grain from Berdyansk.
After that, there were reports of alleged detention of the vessel.