The Shelf-Yug, a vessel coming from Russian-occupied Crimea under the Ukrainian flag and with forged documents of the Shipping Register of Ukraine, has been detained in the port of Burgas (Bulgaria), reads a report posted on Tuesday on the Black Sea Security website (flot2017.com), with reference to data from the Information Resistance-Crimea group.

The report notes that the vessel is owned by a Russian female citizen, but in order to bypass European and Ukrainian sanctions it continued to use the Ukrainian flag received before Russia's annexation of the peninsula. However, it has not been under the technical supervision of the Shipping Register of Ukraine since 2011, but has sailed to Russian-occupied Crimea with forged ship documents.

According to the data of automatic identification systems, in September this year the vessel was serviced in the closed sea port of Yalta, where it also entered under the flag of Ukraine.

The Shelf-Yug also entered the Yalta port on July 3, 2018 by providing copies of ship documents that, according to the Shipping Register of Ukraine, are not in the databases and, apparently, they have numerous signs of fakes. The issue concerns the registration card of the Shipping Register of Ukraine dated January 22, 2018, the classification certificate of the Shipping Register of Ukraine and the certificate of the Shipping Register of Ukraine on the suitability of a small vessel for navigation, which were allegedly issued on January 5, 2017 in Kherson, all signed by the same inspector.

"We see an example of an attempt, on the one hand, to discredit the Shipping Register of Ukraine, and on the other, to drive a wedge between us and Western partners, presenting the alleged visits of 'Ukrainian ships' to the closed ports of Crimea under forged documents," the Information Resistance-Crimea group said.