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Five Azerbaijani citizens were killed and three others were injured as a result of a drone attack on cargo vessels in the Taganrog Bay of the Sea of Azov. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry reported this.
Details. According to the ministry, the cargo ships Natra and Zircon came under attack on the night of June 5. There were 25 Azerbaijani citizens on board. The injured were taken to hospitals in Yeysk.
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry noted that the vessels did not belong to the republic and that the dead and injured had been working on them in a private capacity. The ministry did not specify whose drones attacked the ships.
Azerbaijani outlet Minval Politika уточнило, that those killed were crew members of vessels traveling from Turkey to Rostov-on-Don under foreign flags.
As Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, reported, drones struck four dry cargo ships and one tanker on the night of June 5. They were located in the ports of Mariupol and Berdiansk, as well as in the coastal waters of the occupied territories.