The confrontation on Aboveto the walls of the city hall in Odessa, raised the flag of the Ukrainian Navy to take it off until the Ukrainian sailors return home

Residents expressed support for the sailors who honorably and courageously conducted his campaign

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Sunday, December 2, at the walls of the city hall in Odessa, raised the flag of the Ukrainian Navy in support of the Ukrainian sailors who were detained by the FSB of Russia in the Kerch Strait. It is reported Pushkin.

On the Duma square gathered soldiers, activists and ordinary residents of Odessa. The organizer of the action Alyaksandr Sivak said that the raising of the flag of the Navy of the people Express their support to the sailors who honorably and courageously conducted his campaign.

“They did a very good job. Our task is to show that we are with them,” said Sivak.

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According to him, the flag will remain in the walls of city hall as long as the sailors don’t come home.

We will remind, on November 25, the naval forces of Ukraine said that the border guard ships the Russian Federation has carried out aggressive actions against Ukrainian ships who have made a planned transition from the port of Odessa to the port of Mariupol of the Azov sea. In particular, the Russian boundary ship “the don” made a battering RAM of the Ukrainian Harbor tugs, which had damaged the main engine of the ship, the trim and railing, as well as lost on that raft.

Russian ship blocked the passage under the arches of the bridge Kerch.

When Ukrainian ships began to retreat towards Odessa, they began to pursue the Russian military ship. The Russians opened fire and seized our ships are small armored artillery boat “Berdyansk” and “Nikopol” and RAID tug “Yana Kapu”. During the takeover of wounded and injured six Ukrainian sailors. Three of them operated.

On 27 November the Kyiv district “court” of Simferopol was arrested for two months until January 25, 12 detained Ukrainian sailors. At the same time, the Kerch city “court” arrested until January 25, three Ukrainian sailors (Andrew Adera, Andrey Artemenko and Basil Magpie), who were injured as a result of the seizure of Russian military Ukrainian ships. 28 Nov occupation the court arrested nine more sailors.

November 30 it became known that all the sailors were transported to Moscow.