#Iran seized a #tanker with Iraqi crude in what appeared to be a retaliation for the seizure last year of the same vessel by Tehran’s arch-foe the United States, Iranian media reported.
A naval drone attack against a Russian tanker in the Black Sea signals a potential new front in the Ukraine war, with Kyiv delivering its strongest message to date that it is willing to target Moscow's all-important shipments of oil and fuel.
It came only a day after a drone attack badly damaged a warship.
The battle for supremacy in the Black Sea has massive implications for global energy and food security.
#Russia 's ex-president #Medvedev has reacted to the news of the #tanker 's damage in the #Kerch straits with new threats and some high grade swearing (omitting in translation) - the #Poland element seems quite new:
".... (they) only understand cruelty and force.
If the #Kyiv ... (authorities) want to arrange an ecological catastrophe in the Black Sea, they must get it on that part of their territory that will soon fall to Poland and that will stink for centuries after"
The above mentioned #tanker#Sig (and its sister ship Yaz, both) belonging to the company #Transpetrochart (under US Treasury #sanctions for links to the earlier sanctioned SOVFRACHT), presumed to have supplied the #Russian military in #Syria with #fuel - h/t Boshphorus observer @yorukisik who has kept an eye on them for years