Black Sea: Drone Strike Sinks Ship off Romania, Leaving One Dead and Three Missing (UPDATED)
The merchant ship Khoryv, flying the Comoros flag, was reportedly struck by a drone and caught fire before sinking about 13 nautical miles off Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanța, leaving one sailor dead, three missing and nine rescued. The vessel had 13 people on board: 10 Ukrainian citizens and three Azerbaijani citizens, according to Romanian naval authorities. The Maritime Coordination Center received the ship’s distress signal at around 10 a....
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[Claude] All three reports cover the same drone strike and sinking of the Khoryv off Constanța, with consistent casualty figures and no contradictions (Report 4's 24 km versus Report 1's 13 nautical miles is t
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