T\u00fcrkiye expressed concern after a foreign-flagged vessel operated by a Turkish company was damaged in an attack on Ukraine\u2019s Chornomorsk Port, saying the incident once again underscored earlier warnings over the spillover of the war into the Black Sea.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis incident points to the validity of our previously recorded concerns regarding maritime security and freedom of navigation, as the war in our region continues to spread across the Black Sea,\u201d the foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n
The ministry noted that, according to initial information, crew members and truck drivers on board had been evacuated, no Turkish nationals were harmed, and the Consulate General in Odessa was closely monitoring the situation and providing necessary assistance to citizens.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn this occasion, we once again emphasise the importance of bringing the war between Russia and Ukraine to an immediate end,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
Maritime safety<\/strong><\/p>\n The ministry also reiterated the need for a regulation to suspend attacks targeting navigation safety as well as the energy and port infrastructure of the parties to prevent further escalation in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n Russia launched a ballistic missile and drone attack against Ukraine\u2019s Odessa region, triggering explosions in multiple locations and prompting air defence activity, according to Ukrainian media reports on Friday.<\/p>\n Explosions were heard in the port city of Chornomorsk and several districts of Odessa after targets were detected coming from the Black Sea, the local news service Dumskaya reported, citing correspondents on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye expressed concern after a foreign-flagged vessel operated by a Turkish company was damaged in an attack on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-628891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115708491467409523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}