Turkey has found a second mine in three days floating off of its coast. Turkish defense officials were working to defuse the mine found on Monday near the country’s coast with Bulgaria. Ukraine’s military deployed mines in the Black Sea to prevent the advance of Russian troops, and they reportedly became unmoored due to storms. They could drift as far as the Strait of Bosphorus and the Mediterranean Sea, Russia warned, according to Al Jazeera.
Turkey stopped sea traffic in the area of the Bosphorus on Saturday after a fisherman reported seeing a mine at the entrance of the strait near Istanbul. The mine was defused and the Bosphorus reopened.
Russia has said that the mines are old and “dilapidated,” and may lack a safety measure that prevents them from exploding if they become dislodged from their cables.