News about attacks on vessels: events, facts and developments on tafs uz.
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Oman's armed forces reported the evacuation of 25 crew members of a commercial vessel that caught fire after an attack off the coast of Musandam. A wounded sailor from an Indian boat was flown from Khasab hospital to Muscat. UKMTO also reported a fire on a tanker after two devices exploded in the strait.
Otabek YusupovBulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev confirmed that a US Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft is conducting reconnaissance over the Black Sea following drone attacks on commercial vessels. Defense Minister Dimitar Stoyanov stressed that the aircraft belongs to NATO and has no strike capabilities. Over the past month, four vessels have been attacked in Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone, two of which sank.
Sevara AzamovaUKMTO recorded a second attack on a tanker in one day in the area northeast of Al Jubail: according to the captain, the vessel was fired upon with a rocket-propelled grenade from a small boat. The crews of both attacked tankers are safe; damage and environmental consequences are being assessed.
Otabek Yusupov
