{"id":1419421,"date":"2026-07-19T22:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacks-civilian-ship-in-black-sea-with-missiles-five-people-killed-five-more-missing\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:14:45","slug":"russia-attacks-civilian-ship-in-black-sea-with-missiles-five-people-killed-five-more-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacks-civilian-ship-in-black-sea-with-missiles-five-people-killed-five-more-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacks civilian ship in Black Sea with missiles: five people killed, five more missing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian forces launched a missile strike on the civilian dry cargo ship GOLDEN LEO, which was carrying grain and was leaving the combat zone. The attack killed 5 people, and 5 more crew members are missing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was reported by the press service of<\/a> the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

According to the Ukrainian Navy, the Russian occupiers fired 3 Kh-59\/Kh-69 cruise missiles<\/strong> at the civilian cargo ship GOLDEN LEO, flying the flag of Guinea-Bissau and owned by a Turkish owner. At the time of the attack, the ship was moving out of the combat zone with a cargo of grain.<\/p>\n

The missiles hit the starboard side of the superstructure, causing a fire on the ship. According to preliminary data, 5 people were killed<\/strong> , 5 more crew members are missing<\/strong> , and the search for them is ongoing. The technical condition of the ship is currently being clarified. <\/p>\n

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Units of the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Maritime Search and Rescue Service were involved in the rescue operation. As of 20:30, 8 crew members were evacuated to one of the hospitals in Odessa.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian Navy stressed that this was another targeted attack by Russia on an unarmed civilian vessel under a foreign flag that did not pose any military threat. “The attack is an act of terror against peaceful navigation and a gross violation of international humanitarian law,” the Ukrainian Navy said.<\/p>\n

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Russian forces launched a missile strike on the civilian dry cargo ship GOLDEN LEO, which was carrying grain and was leaving the combat zone. The attack killed 5 people, and 5 more crew members are missing. This was reported by the press service of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1419411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1419421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419421","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}