Source: US News & World Report
“The Russian operator of a cargo ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria said Thursday that it had been hit by a series of explosions in an act of sabotage. Oboronlogistica, a state-controlled company that operated the Ursa Major freighter, said it was wrecked by three powerful explosions just above the water line in what it described as a ‘terrorist attack’ that caused it to sink. … Fourteen of the Ursa Major’s crew were rescued uninjured from a lifeboat and transferred to Spain, and two others have remained missing. The company said the ship, one of Russia’s largest cargo ships, had sailed from St. Petersburg and was carrying two heavy cranes and other equipment to the port of Vladivostok on Russia’s far eastern coast.” (12/26/24)