Oil tanker incident
Altura
26 March 2026
Black Sea, near the Bosporus Strait, Turkey
What happened
A naval drone struck the sanctioned, Turkish-operated tanker Altura about 15 nautical miles from the Bosporus Strait while it carried roughly 1 million barrels of crude from Novorossiysk, damaging the bridge and flooding the engine room. All 27 crew were unharmed. Responsibility was not explicitly claimed in the cited reporting.
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- Vessel / facility
- Turkish-operated, EU/UK-sanctioned crude tanker
- Cargo
- ≈1 million barrels of crude oil, laden from Novorossiysk
- Attack
- Naval drone strike; damage to bridge and engine room, taking on water
- Latitude
- 41.3000°
- Longitude
- 29.4000°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.
Approximate; struck about 15 nautical miles from the Bosporus Strait.