The Ukrainian military said that while its armored boat and tugboat were in Russia after the incident in the Kerch Strait, they were looted and became unusable. The Russians “took“ toilets ”and“ sockets ”from them, said the commander of the Ukrainian Navy Igor Voronchenko.

Voronchenko said that the ships that should arrive in Ukraine today are towed very slowly. The military explained this to their deplorable state.

Quote. “They (ships. - The Bell) do not go on their own, the Russians diluted them. They even withdrawn cryphones, sockets and toilets. So we will now show the whole world the barbaric attitude of Russians, ”Voronchenko said. How exactly Ukraine will “show” the state of ships and prove the guilt of Russia, he did not specify.

By the evening of November 20, all three ships approached the harbor of Ochakov. It is expected that the president of the country Vladimir Zelensky will come there.
On November 18, Russia agreed to transfer the towards of Yana Kapu and the small armored boat “Nikopol” and “Berdyansk” back to Ukraine. The ministry noted that Russia no longer needs to hold the vessel, since it completed all the investigative actions on them (the ships were material evidence in the case of the illegal crossing of the border of the Russian Federation). Kiev will receive its ships back without weapons, the Ukrainian media say, since the Russian military allegedly left them to themselves.

Russia was accused of plundering Ukrainian boats