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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has sent a memo to Russia over a threat to ecological security of the Black Sea.

“The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry informed Russia with a memo on March
13, 2014, about a white strip of an unknown origin stretching out from
the location of the scuttled destroyer Ochakov and divers’ hovercraft,
along the southern spit of Lake Donuzlav,” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry
information policy department director Yevhen Perebyinis told a press
briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

He said Kyiv drew Russia’s attention to the potential threat to
ecological security of the Black Sea waters created by the illegal
actions of Russia and violation of its commitments under the
Ukraine-Russia intergovernmental agreement on the provision of
ecological security and control in the areas of deployment of the
Russian Black Sea Fleet on the Ukrainian territory.

“In this connection, the Ukrainian side declares that the entire
responsibility for the harm done to the waters and natural resources of
the Black Sea rests upon the Russian side. The information has been
conveyed to the foreign embassies in Ukraine and the offices of
international organizations,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman
stressed.