At night, during shelling by Russian forces from the sea, a civilian ship under the flag of the Dominican Republic near one of the berths in Mariupol port was hit, wounding one crew member, Ukraine's State Border Guard Service has said.

"The hit caused a fire in the engine room, one crew member was injured. The captain on the international maritime security channel gave the SOS signal and the message: “Attention! Attention! The ship under the flag of the Dominican Republic was brutally destroyed, everything was destroyed. The bridge was destroyed. There is a fire in the engine room. There are wounded," the message says.

The ship began to sink, and the fire covered an increasing area. Marine border guards promptly rendered assistance to the wounded and evacuated the crew to a safe place.

Now there is a fire on the ship, which is sinking. It is impossible to carry out a rescue operation under constant shelling.