A Ukrainian ship laden with tanks and other heavy weapons docked in Kenya today more than four months after it was hijacked by Somali pirates, AP reported. Its 20 tired and sunburned sailors smiled and shook hands with Ukrainian officials and prepared for the journey home. The Russian and Ukrainian sailors only spoke briefly to journalists assembled on the docks in Kenya's port city of Mombasa before being driven away for medical checks. «It is very difficult to express our feelings because the voyage is too hard for everybody,» said the acting captain, Viktor Nikolsky, in heavily accented English. «We are happy to be here ... We all want to go home.» The capture of the Ukrainian ship immediately sparked a diplomatic spat, after a Kenyan maritime official and various foreign diplomats in Nairobi said the weapons were destined for neighboring southern Sudan, not Kenya.
