The Galaxy Leader sailors, who have been in captivity for 14 months, returned to Odessa and met with their families.
Three Ukrainian sailors, taken by Yemeni Houthis for more than a year, returned home. The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported this Saturday, January 25th.
It was noted that on January 25, the sailors met with their families in the Odessa Regional Military-Civil Administration building.
“I still didn’t realize that I was home … I am very grateful to all participants, and especially to representatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate they were the first to contact us no matter what doubt or fear – they knew the As for us, they will bring us back, “Vitaly said released from captivity.
Earlier, the Reuters reported, mentioning the channel on the television of Houthi Al Masirah TV, that Yemeni Houthis released the Galaxy Leader’s shipment crew more than a year after they occupied the ship under the Bahamas flag on the shore of the Red Sea of Yemen. Among the team members there are also citizens of Ukraine.
On November 9, 2023, Houthis seized the shipment of the Galaxy leader’s shipment to the Red Sea, which was aboard it, in particular, Ukrainians. Japan’s company leased the cargo ship Galaxy Leader from a British company that was partially owned by Israeli rami unger. The ship leaves a port in Turkey in the direction of India and flies a flag of the Bahamas.
The operation had previously been reported to release three crew of the Galaxy leader lasted more than a year and included a complex informal negotiation process with Houthi and other parties.
We will remind you that Yemeni Houthis has published a video of the Galaxy Leader ship seizure with an international civilian staff in the Red Sea. A helicopter carried by armed militants boarded the ship.
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Source: korrespondent
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