Oil tanker incident
Virat
28 November 2025
Black Sea, off Kocaeli province, Turkey
What happened
Struck in the same operation as the Kairos, the shadow-fleet tanker Virat sustained damage from two separate naval-drone hits while empty and bound for Novorossiysk; all crew across both vessels (25 total) 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; two separate hits
- Latitude
- 41.6000°
- Longitude
- 30.1000°
Attribution
Claimed by Ukraine (SBU and Navy)
Approximate; struck 28–35 nautical miles off Turkey's Kocaeli coast, same operation as Kairos.