Russia’s Biggest Black Sea Oil Port Goes Quiet as Drone Threat Grows

Russia’s Biggest Black Sea Oil Port Goes Quiet as Drone Threat Grows

Russia’s largest Black Sea oil export terminal has successfully gone offline simply days after drone assaults shut down the neighboring Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal, tightening one other artery that strikes crude onto the worldwide market. The Sheskharis terminal at Novorossiysk hasn’t loaded a crude tanker since July 21, in accordance with Bloomberg. Sheskharis exported a…

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Turkey-operated tanker carrying Russian oil struck by naval drone in Black Sea

Turkey-operated tanker carrying Russian oil struck by naval drone in Black Sea

A water-borne drone struck a Turkish-operated crude oil tanker that had departed Russia, inflicting an explosion in the Black Sea close to Istanbul‘s Bosphorus ​strait ‌on Thursday, Turkey‘s transportation minister mentioned. The incident, one of several ⁠in recent months involving Western-sanctioned vessels heading to or from Russian ports, occurred in the early hours, minister ‌Abdulkadir…

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