Sea of Azov

As UNIAN reported earlier, the Russian-flagged and Crimea-registered fishing vessel Nord operated by a crew of 10 was seized by the Ukrainian Border Guard Service in the Sea of Azov on March 25 on charges of infringements on the Ukrainian border crossing rules in relation to the occupied territory.

On March 25, the Ukrainian border guard service detained the Russian-flagged fishing vessel Nord, which was operating in Ukrainian waters, in the Sea of Azov. The boat, registered in Crimea, and its ten crew members were escorted to the Azov Sea port of Berdiansk (Dpsu.gov.ua, March 26). They are ...

As UNIAN reported earlier, the Russian-flagged and Crimea-registered fishing vessel Nord operated by a crew of 10 was seized by the Ukrainian Border Guard Service in the Sea of Azov on March 25 on charges of infringements on the Ukrainian border crossing rules in relation to the occupied territory.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukrainian coast guards on Sunday detained the Russian-flagged, Crimean-registered fishing vessel Nord in the Sea of Azov, ... Sea and the Azov Sea water area" following the seizure by Ukrainian border guards of a Russian-flagged, Crimean-registered fishing vessel "Nord.".

Ukrainian border guards in the Ukrainian waters of the Azov Sea in March this year detained a Russian-flagged violator fishing boat. ... naval aviation, was prepared to "ensure the safety of navigation in the north-eastern part of the Black Sea and the waters of the Sea of Azov" following the incident. In order ...

Russia accuses Ukraine of "piracy," threatens to deploy navy in Azov Sea ... As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukrainian coast guards on Sunday detained the Russian-flagged, Crimean-registered fishing vessel Nord in the Sea of Azov, along with her crew of 10 fishermen, charging the Nord of illegally crossing ...

The HQ of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, including the naval aviation, considers the option of the permanent presence in the Sea of Azov and the northeastern part of the Black Sea. An informed source in the Russian military told that to RIA Novosti news agency. 'The aggressive actions of Ukrainian naval ...

The command of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, including naval aviation, is ready “to ensure the safety of navigation in the north-eastern part of the Black Sea and the Azov Sea water area” following the seizure by Ukrainian border guards of a Russian-flagged, Crimean-registered fishing vessel “Nord.”.

According to the Ukrainian border guard service, the Nord was detained off the Obytichna peninsula, a spit extending into the northern end of the Sea of Azov. The service said that the Nord had papers showing that she was registered in Kerch, Crimea, and its crew possessed Crimean-issued passports ...

A court has arrested the Nord, a vessel detained in the Sea of Azov on March 25, the press secretary for Ukraine's prosecutor general, Larysa Sarhan, has said. “We continue to work on the detained vessel Nord. In particular, today the court granted the petition of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous ...

In the Donbass conflict zone, the Ukrainian military have conducted landing exercises on the shore of the Sea of Azov, four kilometers from the line of demarcation, Deputy Commander of the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) Eduard Basurin announced today, on April 2. "The punitive forces, using a truce ...

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said that he plans to invite Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras to visit Mariupol of Donetsk region and the place of residence of the Greek community near the Azov Sea, the presidential website reported on April 1. “We will reach an agreement, we will come ...

According to the Ukrainian border guard service, the Nord was detained off the Obytichna peninsula, a spit extending into the northern end of the Sea of Azov. The service said that the Nord had papers showing that she was registered in Kerch, Crimea, and its crew possessed Crimean-issued passports ...

According to the Ukrainian border guard service, the Nord was detained off the Obytichna peninsula, a spit extending into the northern end of the Sea of Azov. The service said that the Nord had papers showing that she was registered in Kerch, Crimea, and its crew possessed Crimean-issued passports ...

In addition, such noise screens will be mounted along the bridge on the side of the Azov Sea, on the section located 700 meters from the Taman coast. Another part of the noise screens will be installed on the side of the cape Ak-Burun. These metal structures have three-layer panels designed to provide ...

On Sunday, Ukrainian border forces detained the Russian-flagged, Crimean-registered fishing vessel Nord in the Sea of Azov, along with her crew of 10 fishermen. The Ukrainian authorities charge that the Nord illegally crossed Ukraine's maritime borders. In response to the arrest, Russia's Federal ...

... overfishing Ukraine's reservoirs is the biggest threat. Fish stocks need to be replenished, it said, adding that fisheries in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov are also in danger. Ukraine's Red List of Endangered Species published in 2009 listed more than 70 kinds of fish in danger of extinction. Economy ...

A coastguard ship of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service has arrested in the Ukrainian waters of the Azov Sea a fishing vessel flying the flag of the Russian Federation, with a crew of ten people on board. "The vessel NORD was stopped 15 miles from the Obytichna spit. It was established during the ...

A coastguard ship of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service (SBGS) has arrested in the Ukrainian waters of the Azov Sea a fishing vessel flying the flag of the Russian Federation, with ten crewmembers on board, the SBGS press office has reported. "The vessel Nord was stopped 15 miles from the ...

He helped carry out a communist coup in this city on the Sea of Azov, where he had been born 44 years earlier. It subsequently bore his name, Zhdanov, until 1989, when it got its own name back: Mariupol. In 2014, 74 years after Comrade Andrei's arrival and the communist coup, Russian-led putschists did ...

Russia's minister of agriculture Alexander Tkachev has called for expanding grain export capacity to accommodate bigger exports. Tkachev called for the increase of capacity at Black Sea and Azov Sea ports, boosting exports via the Baltic Sea ports, especially in Kaliningrad, and creating export ...

And the construction of the Kerch bridge could cut off the Azov Sea from the Black Sea and choke off Ukrainian ports. This is happening at the same time as the Kremlin continues to sponsor its undeclared war in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The West has already unequivocally stated that it will ...

Seaports of Russia's Azov Sea Basin handled 16.77 million tonnes in winter season of 2017-2018, up 63.8%, year-on-year, IAA PortNews correspondent cites Sergey Safonichev, head of Azov Sea Ports Administration, as saying at the open meeting of the Basin Committee in Rostov-on-Don. According to ...

From the west, Ukraine can be rapidly assaulted along the Azov Sea coastline by the 150th Motorized Rifle Division, the regiments of which are deployed in the Rostov Oblast just 20-30 miles from Ukraine's eastern border, now uncontrolled by Ukrainian authorities. Along with the mentioned forces, ...

Under new regulations of Russian River Register, vessels of mixed sea/river M-PR class can enter the Azov Sea including the Kerch Strait as from March 1 ... transporting different types of freight on the country's rivers, lakes and within coastal trade routes to the ports of the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea.

Moscow's appetite in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov has not decreased after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. Russia has gradually advanced its presence into significant areas of the exclusive maritime economic zone of Ukraine, which, in accordance with international law, is subject to the ...

Russia's war against Ukraine has swelled the population of Berdyansk, which had a pre-war population of 115,000, by more than 8 percent – another 10,000 people – as those who had fled fighting in neighboring Donetsk Oblast arrived, and stayed. The sign on the side of the street says: “The port works, ...

The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) on Tuesday has issued a tender for the dredging works at two Ukrainian Azov Sea ports, according to Xinhua. Yuzhny Port / Photo from uk.wikipedia.org. The dredging project with an estimated cost of about $18 million will be carried out in the Mariupol port in ...

Current tensions regarding the Sea of Azov are not the first time Russia and Ukraine quarreled over this body of water. In 2003, a territorial dispute broke out over Tuzla Island, in the middle of the Kerch Strait. Ultimately, both sides found a temporal solution and signed an accord the same year, but neither ...

"In addition, a group of long-range strategic Tu-22 strike bombers, fully equipped with ammunition, flew in the airspace of Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. They were accompanied by a couple of Su-30 fighters. The aircraft trained certain conditional targets for striking. Such an action of the ...

Ukraine's Dead Coast. March 23, 2018 12:44 GMT. Once a sleepy resort town, Shyrokyne, on the Sea of Azov, is now one of the hottest points of the Ukraine war. RFE/RL photojournalist Andriy Dubchak visited the beach village that has now become a militarized ghost town.

In March 2014, Crimea was annexed by Russia. But troubles began centuries before. The Ukraine, Russia and the Tartars have all left their mark on the peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Can tensions over Crimea ever be resolved?

According to the message, the Crimea's Prosecutor's Office is conducting a legal proceeding concerning the illegal sand extraction near Karkinit Bay in the Sea of Azov. “As usual, Russia uses stolen sand for the illegal construction of the occupant's bridge near Kerch,” Lutsenko noted. The investigative ...