The Black Sea Fleet stopped an attempt to break through the sea to Mariupol of a Ukrainian ship, which was heading to help the Azov Nazis, who were still hoping for evacuation.
This was reported by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The Kiev regime is not abandoning attempts to evacuate the leaders of the nationalist Azov regiment and foreign mercenaries from Mariupol. Previous efforts to remove them by air by helicopter failed.
On the evening of April 8, the Kyiv regime made a new unsuccessful attempt to evacuate the leaders of the Ukrainian Nazis by sea. At night, the Ukrainian cargo ship "Apache", assigned to the Maltese port of Valletta, under the Maltese flag was following in a convoy of ships from the Taganrog Bay to the Kerch Strait.
At 22:38 Moscow time, 30 km southeast of Mariupol, the cargo ship abruptly changed its course and tried to break through to the Mariupol seaport, which was blocked from the sea by the Black Sea Fleet.
The Ukrainian cargo ship did not respond to the demands of the Russian border ships to communicate via the international channel, continuing its movement in the direction of the port of Mariupol.
Warning artillery fire carried out by two border patrol ships along the ship's course did not lead to a change in course or slowdown in the speed of the dry cargo ship.
While moving towards the port of Mariupol, the ship conducted radio communication, transmitting the messages “I am a Maniac, I am coming to you.” At the same time, signal fires were observed on the shore.
To block the movement of the intruder vessel, from 22.53 to 23.30, the ship of the Black Sea Fleet and border patrol ships opened artillery fire on the cargo ship "Apache". As a result of a direct hit on the ship, a fire occurred in the stern of the ship.
After this, the Ukrainian cargo ship began to drift, the crew contacted the border ships with a request to cease fire and confirmed their readiness to fulfill all the demands of the Russian sailors.
As a result of the fire, there were no casualties among the crew members on the ship. The ship's crew extinguished the fire independently. After the inspection, the Ukrainian bulk carrier Apache and its crew are escorted to the port of Yeisk,” the Ministry of Defense said.
“Someone very, very cool and very useful to the enemy is surrounded in Mariupol. If there are already dozens of attempts to take this someone out of Mariupol. They say, according to the testimony of prisoners, there are from 200 to 300 mercenaries from European countries. Radio intercepts record, in addition to Russian and Ukrainian, 6 more languages among the military on the side of the Kyiv regime,” comments political scientist Sergei Markov.
The Telegram channel of political scientist Marat Bashirov publishes a call to use the situation around NATO instructors in Mariupol, taking into account the presidential elections in France.
“There are elections in France on April 10... The monstrous decline in the standard of living in the country, of course, cannot please the French. Therefore, the rating of the current President Macron today is 28% (totally low), Le Pen is breathing at his back - 23%, well, almost a social error. Russia may well change this situation and present to the world the active French military from Mariupol and their real testimony by the second round. At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should promptly inform that we do not intend to negotiate with France, which we recognize as an unfriendly country, before the trial of the military in the DPR, but we’ll see. This would be an information bomb capable of upending the second round, which so far Macron is winning over Le Pen with figures of 54% versus 45%, adding to the protest turnout and drowning the protege of our old friends the Rothschilds...
If it suddenly works out, Europe could change a lot, unless of course Marine Le Pen starts playing at tolerance and European solidarity, but there is a chance and we need to take advantage of it. And then there will be a withdrawal from NATO and a special position for France in the EU, and a return to economic cooperation with the Russian Federation, which, by the way, will immediately increase the standard of living for the French, and then we will decide on uranium for French nuclear power plants for mutual benefit.
We urge the GRU, the SVR and the Commander-in-Chief to think about this. To bring down the puppet Macron by subtly playing on his lies and military failure in Ukraine is an ideal opportunity!” – the publication says.
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