Seafarer charity Stella Maris is warning that Ukrainian seafarers are experiencing increased levels of loneliness and depression amid fears of conscription if they return home as the war enters its third year. Stella Maris regional port chaplains in the UK for Southampton and Southern ports,...
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Ukrainian forces hit Russia’s third-largest oil refinery with a drone strike on Tuesday but with no critical damage. This time the target was a unit of the Taneco refinery in Tatarstan. The refinery is a long way from the front lines, some 1,300 km away from Ukraine’s border with Russia. The Taneco...
KYIV, March 24 (Reuters) – The Ukrainian military said it hit two large Russian landing ships in attacks on the annexed Crimean peninsula early on Sunday, as well as a communications center…
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The Ukrainian military has conducted another drone strike on an oil facility in Russia. This time, the target was the Slavyansk oil refinery in the Krasnodar region. According to reports by local media, the attack by seven UAVs, coordinated by the Ukrainian State Security Service and Ukrainian...
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The Romanian government has given its approval for the expansion of the southern sector of the Port of Constanta on Romania’s Black Sea coast. The completion of the project, which has an estimated value of approximately €1.12 billion (US$1.23 billion), will allow access for large-capacity ships at...
Ukraine has hit several Russian oil refineries with drone strikes in the past few days, continuing to damage Russian oil infrastructure after attacks on coastal refineries at the beginning of the year. The governor of Russia’s Oryol region Andrey Klychkov stated that a fire broke out on Tuesday at...
https://splash247.com/russian-oil-terminals-hit-by-drone-strikes/
More than 1,000 merchant ships have transited Ukraine’s seven-and-a-half-month-old grain corridor in the Black Sea, making the new export channel more productive than the earlier United Nations-backed Black Sea Grain Initiative. Ukrainian seaborne grain exports rose by 30% year-on-year in February...
https://splash247.com/ukraine-sets-war-time-grain-exports-record/
In another bad week for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for its former commander — and video has appeared on YouTube showing the sinking of the Bykov-class patrol ship Sergei Kotov According to Ukraine’s Military Intelligence, the Sergei Kotvov was “damaged by the Magura V5 sea drones on the stern, starboard and left sides.”
U.K. Defence Intelligence notes that these were the same type of sea drone used in a February 24 attack on the...
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In his annual Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) address, in December, the UK’s Chief of Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin spoke of his concern at the “extraordinarily dangerous … |
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KYIV, March 5 (Reuters) – Ukrainian sea drones hit and sank a Russian Black Sea Fleet patrol ship off occupied Crimea in an overnight attack, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday. The…
https://gcaptain.com/ukraine-claims-sinking-of-russian-patrol-ship-near-crimea/