Moscow asserts that the drones involved in the attack in Crimea had “navigation units made in Canada”.
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Russia said on Sunday that it had found wreckage of drones used to attack its fleet the day before in Sevastopol in Crimea, confirming that the drones used the safe passage designated to transport grain and that one could have been launched since then. Civilian ship.
“The naval drones were moving in the security zone of the grain + corridor,” the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding that they had “lifted” the wreckage of the drones from the sea.
Russia on Saturday suspended an agreement on grain exports from Ukrainian ports, vital to the global food supply, after a drone attack in Crimea, which Moscow blamed on Ukraine and Britain.
In the face of these accusations, the British defense responded by condemning “false information” aimed at “distracting attention”, while a Ukrainian official pointed out that the “negligence of Russian forces in dealing with explosives” was the cause of the accident.
The grain agreement has allowed the export of several million tons of grain stuck in Ukrainian ports since the conflict began in February. This blockade caused food prices to soar, raising fears of famine.
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According to the Russian authorities, the attack took place in the early hours of Saturday morning with “nine drones and seven autonomous naval drones”, which caused “minor damage” to the minesweeper ship and a containment boom in the Gulf of Sevastopol.
On Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry added that some of the drones contain “navigation units made in Canada”.
He said one of them could have been launched “from one of the civilian ships chartered by Kyiv or its Western masters to export agricultural products from the ports of Ukraine.”
