{"id":81028,"date":"2025-11-29T18:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=81028"},"modified":"2025-11-29T18:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:40:34","slug":"ukraine-strikes-oil-fleet-two-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/ukraine-strikes-oil-fleet-two-tankers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Strikes Russia\u2019s Shadow Oil Fleet: Two Tankers Hit in the Black Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions in the Black Sea surged after <a title=\"Ukrainian news\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?s=Ukrainian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrainian<\/a> forces carried out a coordinated drone attack on two tankers allegedly belonging to Russia\u2019s so-called \u201cshadow fleet.\u201d The vessels \u2014 identified as Kairos and Virat \u2014 were en route to the key Russian oil terminal in Novorossiysk when they were struck, sustaining significant structural damage.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Severe damage leaves tankers inoperable<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to a Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) official, both tankers were traveling empty but suffered \u201cmajor damage\u201d that rendered them effectively out of service. Video footage cited by the official reportedly shows extensive destruction along the hulls after the strikes.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>A direct blow to Russia\u2019s sanctions-evasion routes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The attack targeted vessels allegedly used by Moscow to bypass international restrictions on its oil exports, dealing what Ukrainian officials describe as a \u201cmeaningful disruption\u201d to Russia\u2019s covert maritime operations. The SBU source emphasized that the operation was carried out jointly by Ukrainian naval units and intelligence teams.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Two Russian tankers hit by explosions in Black Sea\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i9nWz6ykiNM\" width=\"315\" height=\"576\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions in the Black Sea surged after Ukrainian forces carried out a coordinated drone attack on two tankers allegedly belonging to Russia\u2019s so-called \u201cshadow fleet.\u201d The vessels \u2014 identified as Kairos and Virat \u2014 were en route to the key Russian oil terminal in Novorossiysk when they were struck, sustaining significant structural damage. Severe damage &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":81029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[12713,66812,80248,599,3785],"class_list":["post-81028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-black-sea","tag-drone-strike","tag-oil-trade","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81030,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81028\/revisions\/81030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}