Pescaruș oil platform
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Drone strike hits cargo ship carrying Ukrainian grain near Romania; two crew killed
A cargo vessel transporting grain from the Ukrainian port of Izmail to Italy was struck and caught fire in the Black Sea near the Romanian coast on 5 October. Romanian rescuers pulled 11 crew members from the water and recovered two bodies. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said two Russian drones hit the ship, while Russia has not publicly claimed or denied responsibility and Romanian authorities had not officially named the cause of the fire.