Turkey has shot down an uncontrolled drone that was approaching its airspace over the Black Sea, in a rare military intervention by the Nato member. The incident follows warnings by Turkey of escalating risks in and around the Black Sea after Russian attacks on Ukrainian ports damaged three Turkish-owned cargo vessels last week.

Russia has again struck Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, damaging Turkish-owned civilian vessels in attacks on Odesa and Chornomorsk, Ukrainian officials said. The strikes targeted key commercial hubs vital to food exports,

Ukraine struck an oil tanker belonging to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet in the Black Sea on Wednesday, according to an official in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

Ukraine claimed to have successfully targeted a Russian submarine in Novorossiysk using underwater drones, marking a potentially significant development in naval warfare. , World News, Times Now

Turkey shot down an uncontrolled drone that approached its airspace from the Black Sea, the defence ministry said.

The Turkish maritime authority reports a tanker carrying sunflower oil from Russia to Georgia was attacked in the Black Sea

Insurance rates for ships calling at ports in the Black Sea are surging after a series of Ukrainian attacks on vessels with links to Moscow.

Ukrainian sea drones on Wednesday hit and disabled a tanker involved in trading Russian oil as it sailed through Ukraine's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea to the Russian port of Novorossiysk,

Bulgarian maritime authorities have launched efforts to evacuate the crew of the oil tanker Kairos, stranded off the Black Sea port of Ahtopol

A fourth Russia-connected tanker in under a week was attacked on Tuesday, a sharp uptick in strikes on Moscow-associated shipping as the war in Ukraine nears a fifth year.

Addressing Turkish diplomats, Erdogan suggested such attacks are detrimental to both sides of the Russo–Ukrainian war. “By strictly adhering to the Montreux Convention [1936 treaty giving Turkey control over passage of warships through the Dardanelles],