Posted on 11/18/2025 9:22:22 PM PST by McGruff
A drone struck a Turkish-flagged tanker and set it ablaze on Monday in southern Ukraine’s Odesa region, officials said, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a deal to import U.S. liquefied natural gas through the area.
The MT Orinda was hit during the offloading of liquefied petroleum gas at Izmail port, Turkey’s Directorate for Maritime Affairs said. All 16 crew on board evacuated and no one was hurt, it said.
Russia has used drones, missiles and artillery to repeatedly batter the Odesa region, especially its Black Sea ports...
Ukrainian officials didn’t comment specifically on the tanker, although regional military administration head Oleh Kiper said Russian drones attacked the Odesa region overnight and damaged energy and port infrastructure in several cities.
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>> A drone struck a Turkish-flagged tanker and set it ablaze
Was it one of ours, or one of theirs, or one of his?
A drone struck a Turkish-flagged tanker and set it ablaze
Sounds like a Russian attack on a NATO nation’s tanker.
Perhaps Turkey could fire a few missiles at Russian drone staging areas as a lesson to Russia and also perhaps ban ships going into or out of Russian Ports on the Black Sea as a retaliation.
Not sure that Russia wants a war with NATO at this moment
Turkey should invoke Article 5 then.
how do you assume the Russians did it?
“In an maybe unrelated note I just got a notice that my natural gas supply rates will be increasing.”
Now that Russia is putting an end to our LNG exports to Ukraine, I would expect our domestic rates to drop.
Interesting since I sit here in town watching all the tankers headed by rail to the Norfolk shipyards.
no surprise
legitimate target
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