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.
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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Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight killed at least two people and injured 15 others, including two children, Ukrainian authorities said. Meanwhile, Russia said it had intercepted the vast majority of 630 Ukrainian drones launched towards Moscow.
Saudi Aramco has ordered staff to evacuate its headquarters amid escalating Houthi attacks on the kingdom. Two people were killed in an attack on Dammam airport, while Iran's IRGC Navy claimed strikes on seven vessels and warned the U.S. of a wider response.
Russia is willing in principle to resume peace talks with Ukraine and the United States in November, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said after President Vladimir Putin met U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg.
Yemen's Houthis have denied targeting the holy city of Medina on Wednesday adding that they have not conducted any military operations towards Saudi Arabia either, denying earlier comments from the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
Super typhoon Champi is set to batter Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture from Friday (23 October), bringing violent winds, torrential rain and waves up to 11 metres high, as airlines cancel flights and organisers scrap a major festival.
From Typhoon Champi in Taiwan and a deadly earthquake in Tibet to severe flooding across Europe and Latin America, communities on several continents have faced a week of devastating weather and natural disasters.
A powerful magnitude 7 earthquake has struck Tibet in southwestern China, killing 16 people and injuring 65, while forcing more than 12,000 residents to relocate as rescue teams respond to widespread aftershocks.
Almost all of Taiwan shut down on Friday ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Champi, which is forecast to bring strong winds and torrential rain to the island.
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order expanding access to tax-exempt diesel as soaring fuel prices frustrate voters ahead of the midterm elections. But farmers say using the fuel on public roads is too risky, while many other drivers cannot get hold of it.
The FIFA U-20 World Cup 2027 will take place from 17 September to 9 October next year in Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced on Friday.
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