Anka vessel arrested in Reni put up for sale

The National Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) has put up for auction the ANKA vessel and seven trucks seized in Odesa region.

This was reported by the ARMA press service.

The auction also included rapeseed (15.8 tons), winter wheat (710 tons) and flax seeds (26.3 tons), as well as 494 land plots and ski infrastructure facilities.

The Dniprovsky District Court of Kyiv handed over to the National Agency of Ukraine for finding, tracing and management of assets derived from corruption and other crimes (ARMA) a Russian-linked vessel detained in the Danube River. The vessel in question is the bulk carrier ANKA, arrested by court order in April 2025 after the Security Service of Ukraine detained it on suspicion of being used by Russia to steal Ukrainian agricultural products from the temporarily occupied regions of Ukraine.

The arrested vessel was part of Russia's shadow fleet, which the Kremlin uses to sell looted Ukrainian grain to third countries. According to the case file, at the end of 2024, the bulk carrier transported 5,000 tons of wheat from the port of Sevastopol, which was stolen in the temporarily occupied territory of southern Ukraine. The ANKA bulk carrier was flying the flag of Tanzania. Previously, it was called Victoria. The vessel left the Moldovan port in the spring and was heading to the Turkish port of Gömlık.

Earlier, the National Agency for Asset Recovery and Management announced a tender for the selection of legal entities to take measures to organize the sale of the seized USKO MFU, which was transferred to ARMA's management in accordance with the decision of the Dniprovsky District Court of Kyiv. The USKO MFU, a Cameroonian-flagged bulk carrier, was confiscated in October 2024. The detention took place in July 2024 in Odesa region, when the Maritime Guard units detected violations of navigation in the waters under temporary occupation. The captain of the vessel was accused of violating the procedure for entering the occupied territories with the aim of harming the state interests.

Кирило Бойко