A drone attack struck a Turkish-flagged tanker, the MT Orinda, while it was offloading liquefied petroleum gas at I͞zmāil port in the Odesa region of Ukraine on Monday. All 16 crew members escaped without injuries after the vessel burst into flames just across the Danube from the Romanian border. Romanian authorities evacuated two nearby border villages over concerns the tanker’s cargo might explode. The strike came a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a deal to import U.S. liquefied natural gas through the region. The attack is the latest in a string of Russian drone and missile strikes aimed at Ukraine’s southern port and energy infrastructure, underscoring the increasing hazards in this key corridor.
