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The Ukrainian authorities have seized a freighter on the Danube River for allegedly having docked illegally in the Russian-occupied Crimean port of Sevastopol, prosecutors announced on Thursday. The Usko MFU had dropped anchor in Sevastopol in November 2023 and in May 2024, loading up in the first instance with 3,000 tons of agricultural goods for a Turkish company. In May it unloaded cargo from Turkey, prosecutors said. In both occasions it turned off its Automatic Identification System (AIS) to hide its route. The Cameroon-flagged ship was travelling from Giurgiulești in Moldova and was deta…

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