Turkey

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will emphasize the “strategic priority” of maintaining security in the Black Sea at a summit dedicated to Ukraine.

The “Qendil” tanker, part of the so-called “shadow fleet” and which was hit by naval drones in December 2025, ran aground in the Aegean Sea.

Ankara expressed “strong concern” about the situation in the Black Sea and declared that strikes on commercial vessels were unacceptable.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has informed Turkey about the movement of a ship with stolen Ukrainian grain.

Two ships that the Russians implicated in the theft of Ukrainian agricultural products have taken grain from temporarily occupied Mariupol and Crimea.

The expert believes that the sanctioned tankers that attacked near Turkey should have been inspected due to the lack of a flag and registration. This was reported by the head of the project of the Institute for Black Sea Strategic Studies, Andriy Klimenko. According to him, Turkey is very concerned about the attacks by naval…

А Ankara is “concerned” about the shelling of Russian “shadow fleet” vessels near its coast and asks the parties to refrain from escalation within its economic zone.

The company said that security risks to its fleet have increased sharply after the incident with explosions off the coast of Senegal.

The Russian vessel Midvolga-2, which was heading from Russia to Georgia with a cargo of sunflower oil, was attacked near the coast of Turkey.

The Ukrainian Navy noted that Ukraine has not officially confirmed its involvement in the explosions on two Russian tankers in the Black Sea.