MOSCOW. Oct 26 (Interfax) - The crew of a container ship rescued by Russian military sailors from pirates in the Gulf of Guinea consisted of 20 Ukrainian citizens, one Russian and one Romanian citizen.
"It was clarified that there were 22 people in the ship's crew: one Russian, one Romanian and 20 Ukrainians," commander of the detachment of the Russian Northern Fleet ships, Captain 1st rank Stanislav Varik said.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the crew of Russia's Vice-Admiral Kulakov large anti-submarine ship prevented pirates from seizing a civilian ship in the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean.