'Assault on pirates was not an option'
It took five months of negotiations to make a deal with the pirates.
The delay, according to Viktor Voitenko, a spokesman for the ship’s owners, was because of the military nature of the cargo, which he says is more valuable than a supertanker full of oil.
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