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Arctic Sea found completely
The ARCTIC Sea dry truck, which disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean, was found, its crew is safe. In recent days, reports on the detection of the dry cargo appeared twice, but the Russian side refuted them.
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov reported to Dmitry Medvedev that the Arctic Sea ship was discovered on Monday, August 17 300 miles from the islands of the Green Cape. According to the minister, the dry truck was found at 01.00 Moscow time.
According to Serdyukov, the crew of the vessel has already been raised aboard the ship of the Russian Navy "Lada". Sailors undergo an inquiry procedure. The head of the Ministry of Defense also stated that at the time of the meeting with the participants in the search operation, the members of the Arctic Sea team were "alive, well and were not under armed control." “In the next few hours, we will tell you what happened to them in more detail, why the connection was lost with them, why it changed the route,” the minister added.
The ambassador denied everything
Note: despite the fact that Arctic Sea was found about 01.00 Moscow time, only about 17.30 Moscow time became known about Serdyukov’s report. At the same time, on Monday morning, sources in Brussels reported that they knew the whereabouts of Arctic Sea. According to their data, the ship has already passed the Cabo-Verde archipelago (the islands of the Green Cape) and continues to move along the west coast of Africa.
The information that the Arctic Sea is located about 400 miles from one of the Kabo-Verde Islands on Friday, August 14. This was reported by the ITAR-TASS agency with reference to a source in NATO. Initially, this information was confirmed by the French Ministry of Defense, but a little later the head of the General Staff of the state of the Cabo-Verdade, Fernando Carwallo, told the Russian ambassador to Alexander Karpushin that information about the detection of the dry cargo was inaccurate.
Karpushin himself also denied the message that the location of the Arctic Sea was established. “This information was not official from the very beginning,” CNN quoted him.
Not the first time denied
This is not the only episode when the Russian side denied information about Arctic Sea. On Thursday, the Marine Bulletin-Snovfrait said that one of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) was haunting a ship similar to Arctic Sea.
“According to the information of the source that deserves the confidence from the Ministry of Defense, the Black Sea Fleet Watrous Ship, which has begun from yesterday to search for the missing Arctic Sea, is currently pursuing a ship similar to the Arctic Sea in the Atlantic. That is, it can be assumed that the ship is under the control of the abductors and is trying to get away from the chase, if of course it is Arctic Sea, ”wrote Mikhail Voitenko, editor -in -chief of Council.
Mysterious dry cargo
The story of Arctic Sea began to grow in rumors and hunch immediately after the loss of the dry cargo. A ship with a crew of 15 Russians left the Finnish port of Jacobstad on July 22 with a course on Algeria. Two days later, off the coast of Sweden in the Baltic Sea, unknown, under the guise of local police officers, climbed on board the vessel, tied the crew and searched the carriage for 12 hours, and then left it without taking anything. The vessel continued the movement, they were connected with him more than once, but on August 1 the connection suddenly stopped when the cargo ship was near the Atlantic coast of Portugal. Since then, there has not been reliable data about the place of the ship, the media showed assumptions that the ship was captured by pirates.
The Swedish police, which investigated the disappearance of the vessel, considered another version - a commercial conflict between Russian owners and other interested parties.
The whole plot
The Russian dry cargo was missing in the AtlanticDetails of what really happened is still unclear, but the assumptions about the very far spore that has gone between the Russians sound really sounded, commenting on this version, David Osler, an expert on the naval security of the Lloyds List publication. “This does not look like a pirate capture in the Somalia style, because there were no requirements for redemption,” said Osler BBC . - This is not similar to the capture of an expensive ship or cargo. So the longer the whole situation lasts, the more it looks like some kind of conflict between different Russian interests. ”