MARIUPOL, Ukraine — With a new fishing season about to get under way in Azov Sea, it’s local fishermen who fear being caught — by the Russian Federal Security Service, the successor agency to the Soviet KGB that now rules these waters.
Tensions skyrocketed on March 25, after Ukrainian coast guard members detained a Ukrainian-registered fishing boat from Crimea for illegally sailing under the Russian flag in the Azov Sea and fish poaching. Ukraine also arrested the nine-member crew of the Nord ship.
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