Sulina8 of the Wine Trader’s 12 crew are missing.
Two tankers burned in a day beside the Danube route Ukraine’s grain now depends on.
Romania’s president Nicusor Dan says drones hit both tankers, but officials stopped short of confirming it.
Bulgaria’s prime minister Rumen Radev says he has no solid evidence Russia launched Tuesday’s attacks off his coast.
Romania’s defence minister wants a joint NATO Black Sea command with Bulgaria, hosted in Romania from 2028.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 250+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story very differently.
- BBC leans critical
- reports the Wine Trader as a chemical tanker near Sulina and notes unconfirmed reports it was hit by two drones
- Yahoo News
- reports Rutte's NATO response and that Romania's president called both ships 'hit' by air drones
- Stiri pe surse
- proposes a NATO littoral-states Black Sea command with Romania hosting from 2028, interim base on Turkey's coast
- The Times of India leans critical
- ties the tanker fires to 23 sailors lost in five earlier attacks near Romania and Bulgaria
Sources: Stiri pe surse, BBC, Yahoo News, The Times of India