Russian Navy Blog posts updates – here [1] and here [2] – on the capture of the MV Faina cargo ship [3] by Somali pirates. At the time of the capture, the ship's crew consisted of 17 Ukrainian citizens, three Russian citizens and one citizen of Latvia; the ship's Russian captain died from a stroke on Sept. 28.
Russia, Ukraine, Somalia: Cargo Ship “Faina”
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
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