The Russia-Ukraine war has been going on for more than three and a half years. Meanwhile, on Saturday (29 November) in the Black Sea, Ukraine’s unmanned drone targeted the Russian oil tanker Viraat. This is the same ship on which explosions took place on Friday also. CNN quoted an official of the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU) as saying that Russia’s so-called shadow fleet was targeted by drones. Ukraine has also formally taken responsibility for this attack.

Virat and crew members of another tanker ‘Cairo’ had issued an open radio distress call and informed about the drone attack. In the video recording of the call, a crew member can be heard saying, “This is Virat, need help! Drone attack mayday!” Ukraine claims that even though these ships were registered in African countries, they were part of Russia’s shadow-fleet. America and Europe have banned them. Trump’s efforts to stop the Russia-Ukraine war may once again face a setback, because for the first time a civilian ship has been attacked during the war.

“This is VIRAT. Help needed! Drone attack! Mayday!”

The crew of the tanker VIRAT reported a drone attack on an open frequency. Clearly, they weren’t referring to regular drones, but to unmanned boats.

As a reminder, the tankers VIRAT and KAIROS were “exposed to external… pic.twitter.com/cQ7oXvljZ7

— Victor vicktop55 commentary (@vick55top) November 28, 2025

What did Turkey’s Transport Ministry say?
Viraat, which was earlier reported to have been attacked by unmanned marine vehicles about 35 nautical miles off the Black Sea coast, was attacked again by unmanned marine vehicles this morning, Turkey’s Transport Ministry said, according to a statement posted on Twitter.

Turkey’s Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said investigators were looking for signs of an external attack. He told that an external attack means that the ship has been attacked by a mine, rocket or perhaps a drone. These are the first things that come to mind. However, despite minor damage, Virat is stable. Officials have confirmed that all crew members are safe and in good health.

Attack in the Southern Black Sea
OSINTdefender, an open source intelligence monitor operated by the Twenty crew members were evacuated safely after the initial attack on Friday. It is being told that the ship is now burning and sinking off the coast of Türkiye.

CNN quoted a Ukrainian security source as saying that Sea Baby maritime drones were involved in the attack in a coordinated SBU-Navy operation. Russia did not give any immediate reaction. According to the source, both ships have been heavily damaged and have been effectively disabled.

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The Russia-Ukraine war has been going on for more than three and a half years. Meanwhile, on Saturday (29 November) in the Black Sea, Ukraine’s unmanned drone targeted the Russian oil tanker Viraat. This is the same ship on which explosions took place on Friday also. CNN quoted an official of the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU) as saying that Russia’s so-called shadow fleet was targeted by drones. Ukraine has also formally taken responsibility for this attack.

Virat and crew members of another tanker ‘Cairo’ had issued an open radio distress call and informed about the drone attack. In the video recording of the call, a crew member can be heard saying, “This is Virat, need help! Drone attack mayday!”

“This is VIRAT. Help needed! Drone attack! Mayday!”

The crew of the tanker VIRAT reported a drone attack on an open frequency. Clearly, they weren’t referring to regular drones, but to unmanned boats.

As a reminder, the tankers VIRAT and KAIROS were “exposed to external… pic.twitter.com/cQ7oXvljZ7

— Victor vicktop55 commentary (@vick55top) November 28, 2025

What did Turkey’s Transport Ministry say?
“Viraat, which was previously reported to have been attacked by unmanned marine vehicles about 35 nautical miles off the Black Sea coast, was again attacked by unmanned marine vehicles this morning,” Turkey’s Transport Ministry said in a statement posted on Twitter.

Turkey’s Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said investigators were looking for signs of an external attack. He told that an external attack means that the ship has been attacked by a mine, rocket or perhaps a drone. These are the first things that come to mind. However, despite minor damage, Virat is stable. Officials have confirmed that all crew members are safe and in good health.

Attack in the Southern Black Sea
OSINTdefender, an open source intelligence monitor operated by the Twenty crew members were evacuated safely after the initial attack on Friday. It is being told that the ship is now burning and sinking off the coast of Türkiye.

CNN quoted a Ukrainian security source as saying that Sea Baby maritime drones were involved in the attack in a coordinated SBU-Navy operation. Russia did not give any immediate reaction. According to the source, both ships have been heavily damaged and have been effectively disabled.

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There were explosions in two tankers of Russia’s Shadow Fleet near the Bosphorus Strait of Turkey late on Friday (28 November 2025), after which the ships were burnt to ashes. Regarding this explosion in the Black Sea, Turkey has expressed the possibility of an external attack by missile, drone or any marine vehicle. The names of these two shadow fleet tankers of Russia are Kairos and Virat.

The crew asked for help by shouting ‘mayde-mayde’

A tanker crew member reported the drone attack in an intercepted open-frequency radio distress call. He was talking about unmanned maritime drones. In a video, a crew member can be heard saying, ‘This is Virat. Need help. Drone attack. Mayday.’

“Virata, which was earlier reported to have been attacked by an unmanned aerial vehicle about 35 nautical miles off the Black Sea coast, was attacked again on the morning of November 29,” the Turkish Transport Ministry said on Twitter.

Ukraine took responsibility for the attack

Turkey said, ‘The Russian ship has been attacked by a rocket, mine, missile, drone or any sea ship.’ However, Virat has suffered minor damage and the crew is also healthy. According to the report of news agency AFP, Ukraine has taken responsibility for this attack. All this is happening at a time when there is immense pressure from America to sign the peace deal on Ukraine.

An official of the Security Service of Ukraine said that the joint operation to attack the ships of the Russian Shadow Fleet was carried out by the SBU and the Navy of Ukraine. He said, ‘Looking at the video of the attack, it is clear that both the tankers have suffered serious damage. This will deal a deep blow to Russian oil transportation.

Ukrainians attack two tankers of the Russian shadow fleet.

According to sources, SBU Sea Baby naval drones attacked the two sanctioned oil tankers KAIRO and VIRAT in the Black Sea. It was a joint operation between the SBU’s 13th Main Directorate for Military Counterintelligence… pic.twitter.com/U82scXaM5r

— Jürgen Nauditt (@jurgen_nauditt) November 29, 2025

“The modern Sea Baby naval drone successfully targeted Russian ships,” a source in Ukraine’s SBU security service told AFP. He also shared a video that purportedly showed maritime drones moving towards the two ships, followed by explosions.

What is shadow fleet?

According to the VesselFinder website, Russia has been accused of using the shadow fleet to avoid Western sanctions and continue its oil exports. This fleet has become the lifeblood of Russia’s economy after strict restrictions by Western countries on Russia’s oil and gas exports. The AIS (Automatic Identification System) transponders present on these ships are switched off, due to which their tracking system becomes inactive and they disappear from the radar.

Us-Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia: A long meeting between the United States and Russia officials took place in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh to end the Ukraine War and the Black controversy. This important meeting between the officials of the two countries lasted more than 12 hours long, in which both sides made progress on the efforts of the ceasefire. At the same time, according to Russian media, the US and Russia will issue a joint statement on this meeting on Tuesday (March 25).

Russian Foreign Ministry posted video when the meeting is over

After this meeting, which lasted more than 12 hours with the US, the Russian Foreign Ministry released a small video. In this video, Russian officials can be seen exiting after the end of the talks. However, no other information was given by the ministry on this video post. Only written, “The Russian-American meeting is over.”

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The US-Russia Talks in Riyadh has come to an end after more than 12hrs of discusations on different topics.

The Topic of New Russian Borders Were Discussed. A joint statement will be released Later Today (Tues).

Note: Talks between us-ukraine on Sunday was 1hr. pic.twitter.com/3DAQCTNFSA

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,The purpose of the meeting is to maintain dialogue with each other,– Karasin

Russian delegation member and senior diplomat Grigory Karasin has described the talks in Riyadh as well as ‘creative’ as well as ‘technical’. Karasin told the media during the break in the conversation, “All meetings do not have high-profile documents or compromises, the important objective in the meeting is to maintain the dialogue between the parties concerned and each other’s position should be understood in depth and we are succeeding in this regard.”

What issue was discussed in the meeting,

The meeting between the US and Russia officials continued for more than 12 hours in Riyadh. In which this meeting revolved around the possibilities of maritime security and black -like Initiative alive. The agreement is popularly known as the ‘Grain Deal’, which was originally mediated by the United Nations and Turkey.

However, when West cited a failure to fulfill its share in the agreement, Russia completely separated itself from the agreement in July 2023. Regarding this, Kremlin said before the discussion, spokesperson Dimitri Peskov said, “If you remember the original version of the agreement, our side was given significant responsibilities, which have never been fulfilled by the West, which remains a part of the agenda.” He said, “US President Donald Trump has also thought of rethinking the agreement as part of the efforts of the agreement of warfare.”