{"id":167460,"date":"2025-11-30T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/167460\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:08:09","slug":"turkey-condemns-ukrainian-strikes-on-russian-oil-tankers-off-black-sea-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/167460\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey condemns Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil tankers off Black Sea coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ukraine said it used naval drones to hit the tankers in quick succession off Turkey\u2019s Black Sea coast late on Friday afternoon\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An oil tanker moored at the Sheskharis oil and petroleum complex on the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk (AP)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8370583a-42f4-4dab-b5f2-8ecc1b19fdf4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">An oil tanker moored at the Sheskharis oil and petroleum complex on the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk (AP)<\/p>\n<p>Irish Independent Newsdesk<\/p>\n<p>Press AssociationToday at 10:43<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Turkish government has condemned Ukrainian drone attacks on two Russian \u201cshadow fleet\u201d oil tankers in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said the attacks on the Kairos and Virat vessels happened inside Turkey\u2019s exclusive economic zone and \u201cposed serious risks to navigation, life, property and environmental safety in the region\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In a social media post, he added that Turkey is holding talks with \u201cthe relevant parties\u201d to prevent the spread of the war in Ukraine across the Black Sea and to protect Turkey\u2019s economic interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ukraine said it used naval drones to hit the tankers in quick succession off Turkey\u2019s Black Sea coast late on Friday afternoon. Crew members on both vessels were reported to be safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The OpenSanctions database, which tracks people or organisations involved in sanctions evasion, describes the vessels as part of a fleet of ships used to evade sanctions imposed on Russia after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ukraine has carried out successful naval strikes against Russian shipping previously, particularly using explosives-packed marine drones. Those missions had largely been limited to the waters of the northern Black Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine said it used naval drones to hit the tankers in quick succession off Turkey\u2019s Black Sea coast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-167460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}