The sinking of the Russian cargo ship “Ursa Major” in the Mediterranean is due to a “terrorist attack”, announced today the company that owns the ship. The ship’s owner and operator is SK-Yug, a subsidiary of Russian defense company Oboronlogistics, which said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that it “estimates that a targeted terrorist attack was carried out on December 23, 2024 against the Ursa Major ship “, without mentioning who may have carried out the attack and why. “Three successive explosions” were heard, causing “water to enter” the ship, the company said, citing survivors’ accounts. Oboronloguistika did not explain what evidence it relied on to attribute the sinking of the ship to a “terrorist attack”. Two crew members missing The Russian cargo ship “Ursa Major” sank in international waters in the Mediterranean between Spain and Algeria, and two crew members are missing. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced yesterday that the sinking of the ship occurred after an “explosion in its engine room”. […]
Source: News Beast
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