As stated by the Director of the Directorate for Maritime and Inland Navigation, Goran Idrizović, the department is monitoring the situation and trying to return the sailors safely to Montenegro.
He emphasized that 44 seafarers have registered through the emergency registration platform in war-affected areas, and five have applied for evacuation.
Izdrizović specifically emphasized that the security situation has further escalated due to two incidents that can be classified as armed attacks on ships. He added that, in close and intensive cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they are closely monitoring the development of the situation and are working to prepare evacuation flights for our seafarers who have requested to return home.
The Ministry of Maritime Affairs announced a few days ago that 40 Montenegrin seafarers located in the Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf and Oman region had previously registered through the emergency registration platform, stating that the safety of seafarers is an absolute priority.
The war in Iran is entering its third week.
US President Donald Trump said that the military had heavily bombed the strategically important Iranian island of Harg, and that Tehran had been "totally defeated" and wanted a deal that he personally would not accept.
A drone has reportedly hit the US embassy in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, Reuters reports.
The US has offered up to $10 million for information on the new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. The Pentagon is sending the USS Tripoli and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Middle East.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said an investigator from outside Central Command has been appointed to investigate the deadly attack on a girls' school in Iran.
Trump said in a social media post that the airstrikes had decimated Iran "militarily, economically and in other ways."
US Central Command reported that four crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft were killed in a crash in western Iraq.
