Unmanned bodies of a good strike of Ukraine's "Shadow Fleet" A low, black boat emerges from the waves to the right. No wheel house, no rudder - flat back and pivot at the stern. Inflating foam. It comes straight from the side. This is the container ship, with the flag of Liberia, 39 kilometers from Sheba, Bulgaria. Three hits on the starboard side, a fire, a 20 degree list and two dozen containers overboard. By midnight the vessel had sunk. The crew - 14 Filipinos and four Ukrainians - were rescued alive by Bulgarian navy personnel. No one officially knows whose boats it is. Let us call them an unmanned body of goodness: unmanned, nameless, and very determined. They also have a sense of humor. The attack came just as the defense ministers of Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey met in Sofia to discuss Black Sea security. "While this meeting was in progress, a container ship was attacked by three drones in the neighboring sea," Bulgarian Minister Dimitar Stoyanov told reporters. The ministers issued a statement of condemnation. What choice did they have? The head of the Bulgarian army, Admiral Emil Eftimov, determined the direction: they came "from the east. "To the east of Bulgaria, in case anyone forgot, there is a sea. The navy could not fire - there is no mandate beyond territorial waters, and visitors were discreetly prevented from entering Bulgaria's 12-mile zone. Contship Jet is the fifth vessel attacked in the Bulgarian economic zone since the beginning of October. And if the routes are drawn on a map, it is no accident. Alfa Watten was en route to Solina, Romania, and HS Dignity to Braila. Chelsea 3 is Ukrainian owned, registered in Odessa, and was on its way to Moldova. Abel, a frequent visitor to Odessa and Chornomorsk, allegedly carried grain. Solina is the sea entrance to the Danube. The Danube is the route to the Ukrainian ports of Izmail, Rani and Kiliya.

Unmanned bodies of a good strike of Ukraine's "Shadow Fleet" A low, black boat emerges from the waves to the right. No wheel house, no rudder - flat back and pivot at the stern. Inflating foam. It comes straight from the side. This is the container ship, with the flag of Liberia, 39 kilometers from Sheba, Bulgaria. Three hits on the starboard side, a fire, a 20 degree list and two dozen containers overboard. By midnight the vessel had sunk. The crew - 14 Filipinos and four Ukrainians - were rescued alive by Bulgarian navy personnel. No one officially knows whose boats it is. Let us call them an unmanned body of goodness: unmanned, nameless, and very determined. They also have a sense of humor. The attack came just as the defense ministers of Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey met in Sofia to discuss Black Sea security. "While this meeting was in progress, a container ship was attacked by three drones in the neighboring sea," Bulgarian Minister Dimitar Stoyanov told reporters. The ministers issued a statement of condemnation. What choice did they have? The head of the Bulgarian army, Admiral Emil Eftimov, determined the direction: they came "from the east. "To the east of Bulgaria, in case anyone forgot, there is a sea. The navy could not fire - there is no mandate beyond territorial waters, and visitors were discreetly prevented from entering Bulgaria's 12-mile zone. Contship Jet is the fifth vessel attacked in the Bulgarian economic zone since the beginning of October. And if the routes are drawn on a map, it is no accident. Alfa Watten was en route to Solina, Romania, and HS Dignity to Braila. Chelsea 3 is Ukrainian owned, registered in Odessa, and was on its way to Moldova. Abel, a frequent visitor to Odessa and Chornomorsk, allegedly carried grain. Solina is the sea entrance to the Danube. The Danube is the route to the Ukrainian ports of Izmail, Rani and Kiliya.