The Turkish Naval Forces Command has ramped up precautionary efforts to find and defuse any stray sea mines amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Ministry of National Defense said on Sunday.
According to the statement shared along with related footage, maritime patrol aircraft, helicopters, drones and patrol vessels have been deployed to defuse any drifting mines.
Coastal minehunters are undertaking a big role in efforts to find and defuse any possible sea mines while personnel from the Turkish military’s Underwater Defense (SAS) branch are tasked with the disposal afterward.
Meanwhile, the agriculture minister said that “all kinds of fishing activities” had been banned at night in Turkish waters in the southwest of the Black Sea, citing security reasons.
Fishing “from sunset to sunrise” along the sea from Bulgaria to the northwestern Turkish coastline, including the Bosporus’ Black Sea entrance, is suspended until further notice, it said on Twitter.
Turkey shares the Black Sea borders with Russia and Ukraine, which Moscow invaded last month…