{"id":1377947,"date":"2026-05-28T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1377947"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:25:56","slug":"drones-strike-three-russian-shadow-fleet-oil-tankers-in-black-sea-near-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/drones-strike-three-russian-shadow-fleet-oil-tankers-in-black-sea-near-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones Strike Three Russian \u201cShadow Fleet\u201d Oil Tankers in Black Sea Near Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":" <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three oil tankers involved in transporting Russian oil were attacked by drones in the Black Sea near the northern coast of Turkey on Thursday, according to shipping agency Tribeca. No casualties were reported.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkiyetoday.com\/world\/three-tankers-attacked-by-drones-in-black-sea-near-turkiye-3220819?s=1\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.turkiyetoday.com\/world\/three-tankers-attacked-by-drones-in-black-sea-near-turkiye-3220819?s=1\">T\u00fcrkiye Today<\/a>, the tanker <em>James II<\/em>, sailing under the flag of Palau, was struck in its engine room approximately 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of the Turkeli area and about 47 miles from the Bosporus Strait,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UATV English<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vessel was reportedly traveling in ballast, without cargo, at the time of the attack. All 20 crew members aboard were unharmed.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two additional tankers \u2014 <em>Altura<\/em> and <em>Velora<\/em>, both operating under the flag of Sierra Leone \u2014 were also targeted in the same general area while conducting a ship-to-ship transfer operation.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkish coast guard vessels were dispatched to the scene following the incidents.<\/p>\n    <blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll crew members aboard the three vessels are reported safe,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither Russia nor Ukraine has claimed responsibility for the attacks.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident follows previous attacks involving vessels associated with Russia\u2019s so-called \u201cshadow fleet\u201d \u2014 ships used to transport Russian oil while circumventing Western sanctions.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 26, the tanker <em>Altura<\/em>, which is under sanctions from the European Union, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Ukraine, was attacked in the Black Sea about 14 miles from the Bosporus while reportedly carrying around one million barrels of Russian Urals crude oil from Novorossiysk.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tanker <em>Velora<\/em> had also reportedly been targeted by maritime drones in an earlier incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three oil tankers involved in transporting Russian oil were attacked by drones &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1359581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36418,36415],"tags":[78,72928],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1377947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en","tag-sanctions-on-russia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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