According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the men were taken hostage in the port of Maputo when a dispute had arisen between the owner of the ship and a local customer.
Two a Russian sailor has been held as a financial hostage in the port of Maputo in Mozambique. This is reported by the Russian state news agency Ria, which received information from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday.
According to the ministry, the sailors were arrested in a dispute between the ship's owner and a local customer. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, diplomatic efforts to free the sailors have not yielded results so far.
The port in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, is located on the coast of the Indian Ocean.
Last week, the Russian news channel Shot reported on its Telegram channel that several people were locked on a fishing vessel sailing under the flag of Cameroon for eight months. Two of those locked on board the Volopas ship are Russian, one Lithuanian and two Ukrainian.
The news agency Reuters reported on the matter.
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