The names of Russian sailors who were captured on the night of January 2 off the coast of Benin in the Gulf of Guinea became known.
As Russia's Federal News Agency reports, one of them is ethnic Armenian.
They are – Andry Ivanov, Anderey Svitin, Alexander Simonov, Igor Teleshin, Roman Ivanov and Andronik Grigoryan – have been captured by pirates.
The shipowner is holding talks to free the captured.