Unexploded Navy Mines Floating Freely In The Western Black Sea Towards NATO Waters.

Unexploded Navy Mines Floating Freely In The Western Black Sea Towards NATO Waters. Risk of Collateral Damage in the North Western Black Sea. Russia warned that mines that Ukrainians had deployed in the Black Sea against its "military operation" could drift as far as the Straits of Bosphorus and the Mediterranean Sea. After the start of the Russian special military operation, Ukrainian naval forces had deployed barriers of mines around the ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny. The mines were "dilapidated" and made in the first half of the 20th century. Storms have cut cables to some of those mines that are now floating freely in the western Black Sea, pushed along by wind and the currents. The possibility is not ruled out that the Ukrainian navy intentionally allowed the release of certain naval mines. They should drift on the sea currents towards NATO waters.