The water area of the cargo port in Odessa. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 19After the start of the Russian special operation, the Ukrainian Navy laid about 420 mines on the approaches to the ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chornomorsk and Yuzhny, the FSB press service reported. minefields on the approaches to the ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny (about 420 mines of obsolete types of NM (anchor mine) and NRM (anchor river mine) produced in the first half of the 20th century),” the department specified. The FSB did not exclude that they can drift towards the Bosporus Strait and further. «Given that southward surface currents predominate from the areas of the listed Ukrainian ports, the possibility of drifting mines into the Bosphorus Strait and further into the seas of the Mediterranean basin is not ruled out,» the report says.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/a8191cb90374d2b5ade0f4560bd205f3.jpg" />127 treason cases have been opened in Ukraine since Russia launched a special operationRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, there are losses on all sides of the conflict.
