Two More Ships Go Down In The Black Sea — Nobody Claims The Drones
Drones hit two cargo ships off Bulgaria’s coast overnight and one sank, the second such attack in a week, with no one claiming responsibility.
Drones hit two cargo ships off Bulgaria’s coast overnight and one sank, the second such attack in a week, with no one claiming responsibility.
Ukraine has submitted a proposal through intermediaries to halt Black Sea strikes on civilian targets and commercial shipping — an implicit acknowledgment that Kyiv is losing the maritime dimension of the war. Grain export volumes have collapsed 76 percent year-on-year. Novorossiysk operations are suspended. The diplomatic architecture for an off-ramp is being quietly assembled.
Zelenskiy Again Blames West For ‘Spring Offensive’ Failure
The former, briefly lived, UK prime minister, Lizz Truss, renewed calls this week for Ukraine’s NATO membership to be fast-tracked. “I also believe we should fast-track Ukraine’s membership of NATO. We should have done it years ago, but the best time to do it will be now,” Truss told listeners during a speech at a Heritage Foundation event.
The Pentagon announced this week that it intends to continue patrolling international territory despite Moscow putting the U.S. on notice after an incident last week in which an American MQ-9 Reaper drone was intercepted and then subsequently crashed into the Black Sea. The Kremlin has announced that it has closed some of the airspace over the Black Sea as part of a ‘special operation’ taking place in Ukraine.
On Tuesday, March 14th the Pentagon released a statement about a Russian fighting jet colliding with a drone operated by the US military over the Black Sea. The impact caused the drone to crash and it has not yet been recovered.