{"id":271805,"date":"2024-11-24T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/?p=271805"},"modified":"2025-01-13T11:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T09:07:45","slug":"novye-piratskie-suda-rossii-v-azovskom-more-i-obzor-raboty-portov-berdyanska-i-mariupolya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/en\/publication\/south-articles\/271805\/","title":{"rendered":"New Russian Pirate Ships in the Sea of Azov and Overview of Work of Occupied Berdyansk and Mariupol Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Center for Journalist Investigations (CJI) describes how Western sanctions impact Ukrainian ports in the Sea of Azov, occupied by the Russian Federation; identifies new Russian pirate ships stealing Ukrainian grain; and uncovers sea and railways military logistics of Russia in occupied Southern Ukraine.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

On October 31, 2024, Russian occupation authorities of Berdyansk reported that ten drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the port of Berdyansk. Russian air defense hit several drones over residential neighborhoods but some drones reached their targets and hit port infrastructure and damaged one ship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Berdyansk Sea Trade Port in the morning of October 31, 2024. Photo: social media. Collage: investigator.org.ua<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

On November 1, 2024, damaged ship left the water area of Berdyansk. No further entrances of ships to the port have been registered so far. In accordance with satellite data and video from social media, only one ship stayed in the port on the eve of the Ukrainian attack, though two-three grain carriers have waited each day for loading in the port during last half a year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bulker-twins \u201cKapitan Mironov\u201d(MO: 9077563) and \u201cKapitan Yakovlev\u201d(MO: 9077575) have usually used piers # 1 and 2. It seems that one of them has been hit by Ukrainian drones on October 31, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Russian ships \u201cKapitan Mironov\u201d(MO: 9077563) and \u201cKapitan Yakovlev\u201d(MO: 9077575) in the port of occupied Berdyansk, summer 2024. Photo: social media\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

Before the October attack, the Port of Berdyansk has been quite active. Since June 1, 2024, ten entrances of ships have been registered each week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We managed to identify several new ships which violated international maritime law, switched off their automated identification system and entered closed ports of Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Piers of the Port of Berdyansk and one\u00a0 ship\u00a0 on a roadstead, 08.08.2024. Photo: satellite Sentinel-2 \u00a0Collage: investigator.org.ua<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

Let us begin with ships we have identified long time ago. On September 20, 2024, \u201cKapitan Yakovlev\u201d with almost 4 thousand tons of stolen Ukrainian grain left occupied Berdyansk and headed towards Egyptian Alexandria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our colleagues from <\/span>SeaKrime<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 project described the scheme used by Russian pirate ships:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n