Ukrainian Navy drones struck the sanctioned shadow fleet tanker MARQUISE off Russia’s Black Sea coast on the morning of 29 April, according to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces. The empty Cameroon-flagged tanker was drifting roughly 210 km southeast of Tuapse with its automatic identification system (AIS) switched off, likelyContinue Reading
Ukraine is drafting sanctions on transporters and buyers of Russian-stolen Ukrainian grain after a second vessel was allowed to reach Israel in two weeks, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy putting the diplomatic blame on the buyer state “In any normal country, purchasing stolen goods is an act that entails legal liability,” UkrainianContinue Reading
Russian strike drones hit three districts of Odesa overnight on 27 April, damaging a hotel, warehouses, apartment buildings, vehicles, and the city’s hillside funicular, the head of Odesa Oblast Military Administration Oleh Kiper reported. Fourteen people were injured, including two children, with five hospitalized, mostly with shrapnel wounds, Kiper later updated. Moscow hasContinue Reading