Drone hits Turkish oil tanker near Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait

Published March 26, 2026 11:46am ET



A naval drone struck a Turkish oil tanker carrying Russian crude oil in the Black Sea near Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait on Thursday.

Turkey’s minister of transportation and infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloglu, confirmed the incident to local media on Thursday. The oil-carrying vessel, the Altura, was sailing from Novorossiysk, Russia, to Istanbul when it was hit by a waterborne drone.

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