Servicemen in the seaport of Mariupol. File photoMOSCOW, May 24.Five foreign ships, previously blocked due to the threat of shelling and mine danger, left the port of Mariupol, the head of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response — Head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said on Tuesday at a briefing. reported about 75 foreign ships from 17 states blocked in the ports of Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa, Yuzhny and Mariupol. equipment on the approaches and in the water area of the port of Mariupol. Approach channels and inland waters were freed from sunken ships and other navigational obstacles. «In six ports (Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhny), 70 foreign ships from 16 states remain blocked. The threat of shelling and high mine danger created by official Kyiv do not allow ships to go to the open sea without hindrance,» Mizintsev said. As a result of the complex of measures carried out by the forces of the Russian Navy, it was eliminated, he said. According to Mizintsev, measures are now being taken to restore the port infrastructure. He recalled that the Russian Armed Forces daily from 08.00 Moscow time to 19.00 Moscow time open a humanitarian corridor — a safe lane for ships in the south-west direction from the territorial sea of Ukraine with a length of 80 miles and a width of 3 miles «At the same time, there remains a danger to navigation and damage to port infrastructure from the drift of Ukrainian mines torn from anchor along the coast of the Black Sea states,» added the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation.
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