sbu: The SBU said it had seized documents from the ship and questioned its crew, according to The Guardian. It also released a video showing its officers and those from the military prosecutor's office boarding the vessel. Ukraine's SBU security service said in a Facebook post on Thursday it had seized the Russian tanker Nika Spirit in Izmail, a port on the Danube River near the country's border with Romania. The Russian foreign ministry threatened a swift retaliation if arrests were made, but later a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Kyiv told news agencies that while the vessel remained impounded, the crew were on their way back to Russia. Ukrainian prosecutors said about 10 crew members had been questioned. Map Earlier, the Russian agency Interfax, citing an unnamed source, said there were about 15 sailors onboard the ship, all believed to be Russian citizens.
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