Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday responded to his Bulgarian counterpart’s gratitude in the direction of the Indian Navy for rescuing citizens from a hijacked vessel by saying, “That is what buddies are for.”
The Indian Navy, on Saturday, introduced the profitable rescue of 17 crew members of the cargo ship MV Ruen, which had been hijacked by pirates 1,400 nautical miles from the Indian coast. Among the many rescued people, seven had been Bulgarian nationals.
Mariya Gabriel, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Overseas Affairs wrote on X, “I categorical my gratitude to the Indian navy for the profitable operation to rescue the hijacked vessel Ruen & its crew members, together with 7 BG [Bulgarian] nationals. Thanks for assist and nice effort. We proceed to work collectively to guard lives of the crew (sic).”
Sharing this, Minister Jaishanakr wrote, “That’s what buddies are for”.
As per the Navy’s report, they managed to compel as much as 35 pirates aboard the service provider ship to give up.
The Navy utilises its P-8I maritime patrol plane, frontline ships INS Kolkata and INS Subhadra, together with a high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial car for the mission. Elite MARCOS commandos had been air-dropped for the operation by way of C-17 plane.
The rescue operation was executed efficiently with none accidents.