Ukrainian naval drone attacks sanctions-busting Russian tanker off Crimea
A Ukrainian drone attacked a Russian tanker in the Black Sea, tearing a hole in the vessels engine room.
”Overnight the (Ukrainian Security Service) SBU blew up the ‘SIG’, a large oil tanker of the Russian Federation that was transporting fuel for Russian troops,” a source in the security service said.
The vessel has been sanctioned by the US for transporting fuel to Russian forces in Syria.
No one was killed in the attack, but Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-installed official in the southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia, had earlier said several members of the ship’s crew of 11 were injured by broken glass.
The tanker was hit at around on Friday, south of the Kerch Strait, Russia’s Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport said.
The department added that the tanker suffered a hole at the waterline in the area of the engine room, “presumably as a result of an attack by a marine drone,” but that the ship was still afloat.
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