Overview
- Turkey’s maritime authority said the Russian-flagged MildVolga 2 reported an attack about 80 nautical miles off its coast and continued to Sinop under its own power with all 13 crew safe.
- Kyiv has claimed responsibility for two naval-drone hits inside Turkey’s exclusive economic zone on the tankers Kairos and Virat, described as part of Russia’s so-called ghost fleet.
- In the Atlantic, the tanker Mersin at anchor off Dakar sustained four external explosions that flooded its engine room, leading to the evacuation of 22 crew and deployment of an anti-pollution barrier.
- Senegal’s maritime safety agency said its investigation of the Mersin blast is ongoing and does not rule out any hypothesis, cautioning that it is premature to identify a perpetrator.
- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the recent events an alarming escalation threatening Black Sea navigation, as reporting highlights a cluster of incidents involving Russian petroleum shipments.