The cargo vessels Natra and Zirkon — both bearing hallmarks of Russia's shadow fleet and heading to load grain at a port linked to looted Ukrainian supplies — were struck overnight near Taganrog.

A tanker and two cargo ships in Taganrog Bay in the Sea of Azov, Russia's Krasnodar Krai, came under a drone attack on the morning of 5 June.

Five Azerbaijani citizens were killed and three others injured in attacks on two cargo vessels in the Sea of Azov, Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said on