A Ukrainian woman was among the victims of the sunken Kolskaya offshore platform in the Sea of Okhotsk, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported on Tuesday.
"According to the Consulate General of Ukraine in Vladivostok, a Ukrainian woman who lived in the territory of Russia," the Foreign Ministry’s press service reported.
The woman is missing and the search for her is underway, the ministry said.
The Kolskaya oil rig sank in rough waters as it was being towed from Kamchatka’s western coast to Sakhalin on Dec. 18.
More than half of the 67 people onboard the rig were residents of Murmansk. Fourteen of them were rescued and delivered to Sakhalin.
Some 17 dead bodies were retrieved. The others are believed to be missing.
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