6 October 2026
Why a single attack redraws the Black Sea map?

The loss of the Royad Mammadov shows that the threat to merchant shipping has reached NATO’s coastal waters and that shipping and port investment will reorganise around a new safety line. What makes the incident significant is not the ship but the place: it sank inside Romania’s exclusive economic zone, on a route that shipping companies had treated for years as the safer way out of Ukraine. This content is locked Select a CN Premium Subscription Package To Unlock The Content! Remember Me Lost your password? Don't have an account?
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