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A district court in Odessa, Ukraine has ruled to uphold the seizure of the Russian product tanker Nika Spirit,<\/em> which was detained by Ukrainian government security services in the port of Izmail on July 25. <\/p>\n "The court has ruled to seize the said vessel together with the documents seized during the raid. We did it. Period!" said Ukrainian military prosecutor Anatoliy Matios in a social media post. <\/p>\n The Nika Spirit's<\/em> crew were not charged and have been allowed to depart. "Everyone is fine, they didn’t suffer any injuries, no one used violence against them," a spokesperson for the vessel's owner told Russian state media. "All sailors have returned to their home country, which is a good thing."<\/p>\n The legal action against the Nika Spirit <\/em>is related to the vessel's involvement in the Russian seizure and detention of three Ukrainian Navy vessels in the Kerch Strait last November. The Nika Spirit's <\/em>AIS broadcast identifies her IMO number as 8895528 – the same number belonging to the Russian tanker Neyma, which was used by Russian forces to block the navigable channel under the Kerch Strait Bridge during the altercation. <\/p>\n Russian state media reports that the vessel has been sold since the Kerch Strait run-in. The new owner, Fos Shipping Management, told TASS that it is attempting to secure the vessel's release. <\/p>\n