{"id":1334516,"date":"2025-12-18T18:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drones-hit-a-shadow-fleet-tanker-that-was-transporting-ukrainian-resources-from-occupied-ports\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:09:21","slug":"drones-hit-a-shadow-fleet-tanker-that-was-transporting-ukrainian-resources-from-occupied-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/drones-hit-a-shadow-fleet-tanker-that-was-transporting-ukrainian-resources-from-occupied-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones hit a \u201cshadow fleet\u201d tanker that was transporting Ukrainian resources from occupied ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of December 18, drones attacked the oil tanker Valery Horachkov in the Russian port of Rostov-on-Don.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/bmvabrzo\/8020\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported by<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Berdyansk City Military Administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impact caused a fire on it. In addition, two people were killed and three others were injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As noted, the vessel is on the list of tankers of the Russian Federation&#8217;s &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221;, which the Kremlin uses to transport petroleum products, circumventing international sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been spotted repeatedly in the temporarily occupied ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk. The Kremlin used this tanker to export Ukrainian resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/udar-po-morskiy-lohistytsi-rf-shche-odyn-tanker-otrymav-urazhennia\/\">that <span class=\"s1\">near Dakar, the capital of Senegal, the Mersin oil tanker, which was transporting diesel fuel and has ties to Russia, suffered four external damages.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/dva-rosiyski-sanktsiyni-tankery-pidirvalysia-bilia-turechchyny\/\"><span class=\"s1\">two tankers from Russia&#8217;s shadow fleet, which are under international sanctions, exploded in the Black Sea.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of December 18, drones attacked the oil tanker Valery Horachkov in the Russian port of Rostov-on-Don. This was reported by the Berdyansk City Military Administration. The impact caused a fire on it. In addition, two people were killed and three others were injured. As noted, the vessel is on the list of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1334512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76874,76875,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1334516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war","category-other-news","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1334512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}