This was announced on June 4 by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko.

The Caffa systematically violated the rules governing entry into and exit from the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine with the aim of harming the state’s interests.

“This is the first case in which, at the request of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office for international legal assistance, a foreign court has approved the arrest of a vessel that may have been involved in the illegal export of Ukrainian goods from the temporarily occupied territory,” Ruslan Kravchenko noted.

To conceal its activities, a scheme involving false registration was used: in international databases, the vessel is listed as “Guinea False.”

On March 12, 2026, the Office of the Prosecutor General submitted a request for international legal assistance to the Ministry of Justice of the Kingdom of Sweden.

The Ukrainian side requested that the vessel be searched, the captain and crew members be questioned, and that the Caffa be arrested.

The competent Swedish authorities promptly began executing the request. The following week after receiving it, the vessel was searched and witnesses were questioned.

Today, this process took an important procedural step forward—the court approved the arrest of the vessel.

“This is a concrete result of international legal cooperation between Ukraine and our partners. Daily work, information exchange, and the collection and transmission of additional evidence have yielded results: the vessel has been arrested,” stated Ruslan Kravchenko.

However, Ukraine systematically documents these crimes: it tracks routes, identifies vessels, records illegal incursions into the occupied territory, and utilizes all mechanisms of international legal assistance.