It was reported that occupants are painting over their ships names and board number in preparation of provocations that would be aiming to put the blame on Ukrainian military ships for targeting civil vessels.
This has even reported by State Body Guard Service of Ukraine (https://t.me/DPSUkr)
According to the message: “A fake counter-terrorist operation was used as the cover up story to block ports from functioning. Four civil vessels have been shelled.”
The occupiers from one of the downed tankers have caused an ecological bomb, they have captured and continue keeping civil cargo ships as hostages.
“[Russian military] is causing disruptions while we are trying to conduct rescue operations. One search and rescue vessel has been seized, [they] are constantly threatening to use weapons on rescue boats that came to help crews of downed ships.” stated border guards.
Today, in the morning, shells hit at least two residential buildings on the coastline of Odesa.