Tension in the Black Sea. Boarding!

(BRUSSELS2) The crew of the Ukrainian ship Slavutych prevented the capture attempt” by armed people said the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. " Armed persons were on board a boat approached the ship. They even attempted to board the ship, capture it, along with the weapons and sailors. But (our) soldiers pushed them back said Captain Vitaliy Zvyahintsev, Commander of the Ukrainian Surface Ships Brigade. Russian Black Sea Fleet ships maintain a blockade around the two Crimean Ukrainian Navy ships.

The tension could continue with the arrival of the frigate hetman Sahaydachny (U-130) back from an anti-piracy mission with NATO (Ocean Shield) and the European Union (EUNAVFOR Atalanta). She passed the Dardanelles Strait this morning "under the Ukrainian flag" specifies the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, "accompanied by the Turkish ship Rusen Bey in the strait" and should pass the Bosphorus this evening and enter the Black Sea. (Also read: Latest piracy news (February 1)