Sevastopol, August 22 (Interfax-AVN) - Activists of the Ukrainian youth movement Students' Fraternity have illegally come to the premises of the Sarych lighthouse of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Fleet Commander Press Secretary Capt. 1st Class Vyacheslav Trukhachyov said on Monday.
"Eight young men came to the Sarych lighthouse premises at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.
They refused to identify themselves and to make known the goal of their visit. They said they would speak only to representatives of the Ukrainian police," he said in reply to an Interfax question.
The lighthouse supervisor called the police.
The young men were taken to the lighthouse guard’s office to wait for the arrival of a Balaklava police patrol.
The police took them away from the military site at 10:00 p.m.
After that, the young men set tents on the seashore outside of the lighthouse.
They swam in the sea, basked in the sun and took rest from the Sunday venture into the lighthouse territory, Trukhachyov said.
On Aug. 2 the Crimean Economic Court upheld the resolutions of the Sevastopol Appeals Court of Sept. 11, 2006, and the Crimean Economic Court of Oct. 16, 2006, which transferred lighthouses of the Russian Black Sea Fleet to Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Justice Ministry’s Bailiff Service was ordered to start the impoundment of the lighthouses.
The court also said that bailiffs would also return two RS-10 radio-navigation stations in Yevpatoria and the Tarkhankut lighthouse to Ukraine.
Ukrainian courts started ordering the return of navigation sites to Ukraine in 2006, but Russia refused to obey those orders.
