Seventeen people have been rescued from the water after the Ukrainian armed forces attacked a railroad ferry with fuel tanks in the port of Kavkaz, Krasnodar Region Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said, APA reports citing TASS.
"At the moment 17 crew members have been rescued. The operation to rescue the rest continues - we need to find two more people. I am grateful to the special emergency services for their efficiency in carrying out search and rescue operations," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to Kondratyev, the attack on the ferry carrying fuel is another attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack on civilian facilities.