Navigation in the Black Sea is getting more and more dangerous.
While Ukraine is losing territory at the fastest pace of the whole war, it has made a point to successfully strike civilian vessels that it deems to be involved in the so-called Russian shadow-fleet.
Yesterday (10), a Ukrainian naval drone struck another oil tanker in the Black Sea.
CNN reported:
“A Ukrainian security source told CNN that Sea Baby maritime drones were used in a joint operation by the SBU and the navy. It was the third attack against Russian tankers in two weeks.
Russia has been using hundreds of tankers, flying different flags, to clandestinely ship its oil to customers in defiance of Western sanctions.”
Yesterday’s target, the Dashan, was sailing under the flag of the Comoro Islands.
It suffered ‘critical damage’, with preliminary information indicating the ship was ‘disabled’.
Ukraine released a video showing a drone strike on an alleged Russian shadow fleet oil tanker, the third sea drone attack in two weeks on vessels in the Black Sea https://t.co/LL06ZCDU1s pic.twitter.com/IrL8BTHgX3
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 11, 2025
“Video obtained by CNN shows a Sea Baby drone diving under the tanker before a series of explosions in the vessel’s stern area. Thick plumes of smoke then engulf the tanker.”
It’s not clear what cargo the vessel was carrying, or whether the strike caused an oil spill.
“The ship was traveling at top speed through Ukraine’s exclusive economic zone, with its transponder turned off, when it was hit, the SBU source said.”
The ship was reportedly bound for Russia’s Novorossiysk port terminal, a key Russian oil hub that was hit last month.
Watch: footage of a previous attack on a cargo ship.
Watch the moment a shadow fleet tanker gets hit!
Fire, smoke, destruction – no mercy, no warning.
The Black Sea isn’t safe for anyone carrying russia’s oil. pic.twitter.com/eth5boPvJ2— Angelica Shalagina (@angelshalagina) November 29, 2025
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