In the Mediterranean Sea, a Russian dry cargo carved from St. Petersburg sank. Main

The Russian dry cargo drove in the Mediterranean Sea. Presumably, he had to participate in the evacuation of the Russian military base in Syria.

According to the La Verdad publication, including With reference to rescue services, the Ursa Major dry cargo ship (Bolshaya Ursa Major) left St. Petersburg on December 11, and Vladivostok was listed on the end point of its track. On board were sixteen crew members.

The Vessel Finder service indicates that Ursa Major was supposed to arrive in Vladivostok on January 22, 2025.

The ship sank at 2 hours 22 minutes Moscow time in international waters between the Spanish municipality of Agilas and the Algerian oran.

La Verdad writes that 14 crew members were delivered by rescuers to the port of Cartagena. Two more are listed as missing.

According to unnamed sources of the publication, an explosion of equipment occurred on the ship. On board were "containers empty at the time of the accident."

The crash area was declared dangerous for shipping before the arrival of the "Russian warship, which took over the leadership of rescue work," reports La Verdad.

Mediazona, citing OSINT analysts in the morning, reported that Russia sent five cargo ships to the Mediterranean Sea, presumably, to evacuate a military base from Syria, where Bashar Assad’s loyal to the Kremlin was overthrown.

On Monday, on Monday, in the afternoon, the telegram channel published a video made in the afternoon in the afternoon, in which Ursa Major endures. The ship still holds on the water, but with a noticeable roll. The author of the video shoots what is happening from another ship and speaks Russian. According to him, the crew left the dry cargo ship on the boat.

“Well, we, like many other steamboats, abandoned everything on the patch,” says the author of the video. In addition to the drowning “Ursa Major” and the decks with which the shooting is carried out, there are two more large ships on the record, in appearance - also cargo. One of them is allegedly saved by the evacuated crew.

Ship and military transportation

According to open data , the Ursa Major dry cargo ship, assigned to the port of Novorossiysk, is operated by Oboronlogisti LLC. This is a company of the Ministry of Defense of Russia. The ship was built in 2009 in Germany, under the Russian flag it went at least since 2017.

The “defense science” vessels have been repeatedly used for transportation related to Syria. For example, the ship "Sparta II", as investigators established , delivered Russian anti-aircraft missile systems S-300 from Syria to Novorossiysk.

In early May 2022, the United States imposed sanctions against defense science and several other Russian companies engaged in marine transportation for the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Evacuation from Syria

On the eve of Radio, Liberty published a lot of material about the evacuation of the Russian military from Syria. Of the satellite shots, which the analyst Alexander Oliver drew attention to, it follows that the Russians were dismantled in the port of Tartus for many years the Monolith-B mobile coastal reconnaissance complex there for many years.

It was also established that the Russian large landing ship of Project 11711 "Ivan Gren" and a large landing ship of Project 775 "Alexander Otakovsky" went to Tartus from Russia. OSINT analysts suggest that it is on them that the main work on the removal of Russian military equipment from Syria will fall.

The same Alexander Oliver, having studied the data on the load, which was on board Ursa Major, however, came to the conclusion that the ship was really heading to Vladivostok. The photo and video shows that there were two port taps on board the dried cargo, as well as 45-ton hatch covers for the construction of atomic icebreakers. This was also reported by "defense science" earlier. According to the analyst, the loss of this cargo will be a big blow to the port of Vladivostok and the icebreaker construction program.