Ukrainian court rules to arrest Russian tanker Neyma

A Ukrainian court has analyzed the legitimacy of actions taken by military prosecutors and Security Service investigators in searching the Russian tanker Neyma at the Izmayil port in Odesa region on July 25 and put both the tanker and the documents found during the search under arrest.

Censor.NET reports citing Ukrainian Chief Military Prosecutor Anatolii Matios post on Facebook.

"Having heard a relevant motion, the court put the said vessel along with the documents seized during the search under arrest. We did it. Period!" Matios wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.

Ukraine's SBU Security Service, together with the Military Prosecutor's Office, has detained the Russian tanker Neyma that blocked Ukrainian naval vessels in the Kerch Strait in November 2018.