Oil tanker incident
Kairos
28 November 2025
Black Sea, off Kocaeli province, Turkey
What happened
Ukraine's SBU and Navy struck the sanctioned shadow-fleet tanker Kairos with long-range "Sea Baby" naval drones while it was empty and heading to Russia's Novorossiysk terminal; the tanker caught fire and was later left stranded off Bulgaria's coast. All crew were evacuated safely.
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- Vessel / facility
- Gambian-flagged shadow-fleet oil tanker
- Cargo
- Empty, en route to load crude at Novorossiysk
- Attack
- Ukrainian naval drone ("Sea Baby") strike; fire
- Latitude
- 41.5500°
- Longitude
- 29.9000°
Attribution
Claimed by Ukraine (SBU and Navy)
Approximate; struck 28–35 nautical miles off Turkey's Kocaeli coast.