A Russian warship on Sunday fired warning shots and boarded a cargo vessel it said was heading to Ukraine in the wake of pulling out of a deal that would allow Kyiv to transport grain through the Black Sea.
A Russian warship on Sunday fired warning shots and boarded a cargo vessel it said was heading toRussia’s Ministry of Defense said the captain of the Sukru, a cargo ship sailing under the flag of Palau, refused to stop for an inspection of the “potential carriage of prohibited goods” while it was heading to the Ukrainian port of Izmail.
“The Russian combat ship fired warning shots from automatic small arms to forcibly stop the vessel,” officials told TASS, the official Russian news agency.
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