New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs has summoned the Ukrainian ambassador, Dr. Oleksandr Polishchuk, according to reports.
The envoy was summoned after attacks on merchant vessels with Indian crew on board.
The vessel with four Indian crew was targeted at Ukraine’s Odesa port on Saturday, HT reported.
According to the statement, as cited in the report, from the Indian embassy in Kyiv, the incident occurred on Saturday.
MV AGN Ragnar was hit at the Port of Odesa. It is one of Ukraine’s key Black Sea ports that has frequently come under attack since the 2022 outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Earlier, four Indian seafarers were killed in a Russian attack on the commercial vessel MV Golden Leo. Russian chargé d’affaires Vladimir Ladanov was summoned to the external affairs ministry as the Russian ambassador was away from New Delhi.
