The crew is missing. The Palau-flagged Able caught fire. Eighteen were rescued, two badly hurt. Prime Minister Radev calls it a breach of maritime law. No one has been named. Moscow has not commented.
The day before, the Turkish grain ship Royad Mammadov was hit in Romania’s zone. It sank. Two dead, one missing, eleven rescued. Zelenskyy points to Russia.
Pekka Toveri writes that it is time for a Nato naval operation in the Black Sea. Jarno Limnell says the threat to merchant shipping has reached a new level, and that Finland should expect the same in the Baltic. The Odesa governor says a Russian drone the same day hit a Marshall Islands ship, one dead and seven hurt. That account is his.
Nato waters. Civilian cargo.

