Undisguised neglect of Russian sailors to fulfill requirements of Ukrainian legislation forced Ukrainian frontier guards to take such unpopular measures.

Patrol boat?s crew of sea guards of Kerch detachment of State frontier service has arrested three Russian tankers: "Volgoneft-132", "Volgoneft-250" and "Volgoneft-269" during the performance of special measures of maintenance of procedure of state frontier control yesterday.

Undisguised neglect of Russian sailors to fulfill requirements of Ukrainian legislation forced Ukrainian frontier guards to take such unpopular measures.

According to the documents tankers should make their way to the port of Astrakhan in Russian territorial waters but Ukrainian frontier guards found them in Ukrainian anchorage without any documents for sojourn on foreign territory and that is the direct violation of Ukrainian code of coastwise navigation.

Moreover the captain of one of Russian ships refused flatly to take the survey group aboard.

All captains were made answerable for boundary regime disturbance. They were conveyed to Russian frontier guards.
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