Ukraine’s Security Service arrests Russian cargo ship in Odesa port

In the Odesa port, law enforcement officers detained and arrested a Russian dry cargo ship that was accused of transporting Ukrainian agricultural products through the occupied Crimea, Ukraine’s Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Dec. 10.

The Security Service of Ukraine reported that the vessel is Russian-controlled and used for exports of Ukrainian agricultural products from Crimea.

According to the prosecutor’s office and SBU, the ship has repeatedly undergone changes in its name.

The SBU said it located the ship in the commercial port of Odesa, where it had arrived under the flag of an African state