The russian federation has suspended ferry service between the south of russia and the occupied Crimea after a ship loaded with railway cars with fuel was sunk in the port of Kavkaz the day before.
It was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Transport of russia.
They said that the Kerch crossing will not function "for the period of elimination of the consequences" of the incident in the port.
The ministry added that drivers can use the land route to Crimea.
The authorities of the Krasnodar Krai noted that work "to eliminate the consequences of the event" is still ongoing on the territory of the object.
"A special regime has been introduced in the port. The forces of the Maritime Rescue Service are conducting work to eliminate the oil spill," the statement said.
Recall that on August 22, the russian federation announced that the Conro Trader ferry sank in the port of Kavkaz after an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, today, August 23, the spokesman of the Navy, Dmytro Pletenchuk, confirmed that the railway ferry Conro Trader of the russian occupiers, which sank on August 22 in the port of Kavkaz in the Krasnodar Krai of the aggressor country of the russian federation, was destroyed by the Ukrainian Navy.
Pletenchuk calls the "double bonus" of this operation the fact that, as a result of the attack, the operation of the russian port is partially blocked - until the affected ship is removed from the berth.
On August 23, Planet Labs satellite images recorded the results of the strike by the Defense Forces of Ukraine on the port of Kavkaz in the Kerch Strait, as a result of which the russian occupiers' railway ferry Conro Trader sank on August 22.
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