The Bosphorus in Istanbul . File photoANKARA, Apr 10Turkey is investigating drifting mines in the Black Sea until it knows the exact number, Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar said. The Russian FSB noted that the Ukrainian military after the start Russian special operations in Ukraine installed about 420 mines of obsolete types of NM (anchor mine) and YRM (anchor river mine), produced in the first half of the 20th century, on the approaches to the ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny. The service did not exclude the possibility of the drift of derailed mines into the Bosphorus and further into the seas of the Mediterranean basin due to the current. The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced three times that it had found drifting mines in the Black Sea. Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Mikhail Popov stated that American instructors trained Ukrainian sailors. According to the Minister of Defense, Turkey has good relations with both Ukraine and Russia, and that both countries trust Turkey. «Mines in the Black Sea are Russian-made , but we don't know which country left them, we can't identify them. Information in the media that there are about 400 mines in the Black Sea is a complete mystery. We don't know the number,» Akar said, adding that Turkey is in contact with the Bulgarian and Romanian authorities. «They are doing dredging just like we are,» he stressed. Kyiv's inability to defuse its own mines
