Drone attack on Container ship Yanina

Black Sea, 130 nm southwest of Novorossiysk · Russia · 1 August 2026

Two Ukrainian naval drones struck the sanctioned container ship Yanina about 130 nautical miles out from Novorossiysk overnight and it sank: the first vessel in this record lost rather than damaged. All 17 crew were recovered, 16 of them by the containership Delphius. Zelensky said Ukraine had sent it to the bottom; Rosatom confirmed the sinking and called the attack piracy.

Every figure on this page is a published claim, kept with its source. Figures count what each side says was launched at it; places are locations that reported impacts. Neither is a casualty count.