A military diving team deactivated a stray naval mine off Turkey's northwest coast on Monday, Turkey's defence ministry said, the second such device to be defused in the area in days amid the war in Ukraine.
Russia's main intelligence agency last week accused Ukraine of laying mines to protect ports and said several hundred of the explosives had broken off from cables and drifted away. Kyiv dismissed that account as disinformation.
The Black Sea is a major shipping route for grain, oil and oil products. It links to the Marmara and the Mediterranean seas via the Bosphorus strait, which runs through the heart of Istanbul, Turkey's largest city with 16 million residents."The stray mines pose a major risk in the Straits as they could cause a disaster, especially it they hit crude oil ships," Kubilay Ali, general operations manager at Tribeca Shipping, said.
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