Romanian authorities are searching for missing crew members following an incident involving a ship in the Black Sea. Romanian President Nicusor Dan attributed the incident to Russian escalation.
The 13 crew members include up of 10 Ukrainians and three Azerbaijanis. Nine have already been rescued and one has been confirmed dead.
The incident is the latest in a series of incidents in the Black Sea involving Russian and Ukrainian forces.
Ukraine has stepped up attacks on ships and infrastructure facilitating Russian oil and grain exports since July, when Russia intensified its missile and drone strikes on the main Ukrainian grain export hubs of Odesa, Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi.
In a post on X, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen echoed Dan's remarks about Russia, saying she is “deeply alarmed by yet another Russian escalation in the Black Sea.”
Azerbaijani crews have already been caught up in the violence already this year.
In September two Azerbaijani sailors were killed when a foreign cargo ship they were travelling on was attacked by drones in the Black Sea, Baku's Foreign Ministry has said.
In June, five Azerbaijani crew members were killed in an overnight drone attack on two cargo ships, the Natra and the Zircon, in Taganrog Bay in the Sea of Azov, with three others wounded, Baku’s Foreign Ministry said.
In Ukraine, more than 500,000 people were left without power overnight following Russian strikes on energy infrastructure in western, central and southern Ukraine, Kyiv’s Energy Minister Artem Nekrasov has said.
Nekrasov said emergency operations were underway to restore power, but warned of difficulties due to continued Russian attacks. He named the affected regions as Zhytomyr, Volyn, Mykolayiv, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi and Rivne.
Ukraine's largest private energy company, DTEK, said that one of its thermal power plants had been hit and operations suspended due to significant damage. It didn’t say where the plant was located.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had also hit the port of Vilkovo in Odesa in southern Ukraine, a cargo ship in the Black Sea and a train depot in Poltava, central Ukraine.
Ukrainian attacks meanwhile killed two people and injured four others in Russian-controlled Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, the region’s Moscow-installed Governor said.
Kyiv’s drone attacks also hit an industrial plant in Russia’s Perm region near the Ural Mountains, the area’s Governor Dmitry Makhonin said.
In a post on Telegram, he said emergency services were at the scene and that there were no casualties.
The latest series of attacks came as Reuters reported a diesel tanker was heading towards New York, after Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to lift a self-imposed ban on diesel exports following a deal reached with U.S. President Donald Trump on 9 October.
The Malta-flagged ship which is carrying 40 million kilograms of Russian diesel is due to arrive in the U.S. on 7 November.
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