The Ministry of External Affairs has summoned the Ukrainian ambassador, Dr. Oleksandr Polishchuk, after attacks on merchant vessels with Indian crew on board.
Event Context
This comes after a vessel with four Indian crew was targeted at Ukraine’s Odesa port on Saturday.
As per the statement from the Indian embassy in Kyiv, the incident occurred on Saturday when MV AGN Ragnar was hit at the Port of Odesa, one of Ukraine’s key Black Sea ports that has frequently come under attack since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022.
Team Analysis
Days before this attack, four Indian seafarers were killed in a Russian attack on the commercial vessel MV Golden Leo. Following this, Russian chargé d’affaires Vladimir Ladanov was summoned to the external affairs ministry in full public glare, with TV crews filming his arrival on Tuesday morning.
Ladanov was summoned as the Russian ambassador was away from New Delhi.
This is a developing story…
