Drone attack on ships bound for Russia, 5 Azerbaijani sailors dead

Drone attack on ships bound for Russia, 5 Azerbaijani sailors dead
The site of a dairy farm hit by a Russian drone attack, in the context of the Russian offensive against Ukraine, in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, in this photo provided and distributed on June 5, 2026. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Kyiv region/Photo provided via REUTERS via REUTERS

A Russian drone attack on an agri-food production facility near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv killed four people in the early hours of this morning. The regional governor announced this. “The enemy attacked a peaceful civilian company in the food sector,” Mykola Kalashnyk said in a message on Telegram. Five Azerbaijani sailors, on the other hand, were killed in a drone attack on two cargo ships coming from Turkey and heading to a Russian port. This was reported by the Baku Foreign Ministry, cited by the Russian agency Interfax.

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The day also saw the explosion of a naval drone this morning in the Romanian port of Constanta, on the Black Sea, without causing injuries. “The maritime drone, discovered this morning, June 5, in the civilian port of Constanta, near the headquarters of the Romanian Agency for the Safeguarding of Life at Sea, self-destructed around 10:30 without causing casualties,” the Ministry of Defense announced in a statement.

Russian Embassy: “Drone exploded in Romania is Ukrainian”

The Russian Embassy in Romania stated that the marine drone that exploded in the port of Constanta, Romania, was Ukrainian, as were three others “that are heading towards Romanian territorial waters.”

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“These are Ukrainian marine drones, used by the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist acts against civilian ships and threaten navigation safety in the Black Sea,” the embassy stated on its Telegram channel, adding that “any attempt to directly or indirectly attribute responsibility for this incident to Russia is baseless.”

A few days ago, another drone crashed into a residential building in the country, injuring two people.

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