France sends patrol planes to Black Sea after ship attacks
A French Navy Atlantique 2 maritime patrol aircraft has deployed to Romania and is supporting search and rescue efforts after a wave of drone attacks on merchant ships off the Romanian and Bulgarian coasts, while a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon has begun patrolling the Black Sea at Bulgariaβs request. The Atlantique 2 arrived in ConstanΘa [β¦]
A drone strike sank a merchant ship carrying Ukrainian and Azerbaijani sailors off Romaniaβs Black Sea coast on Oct. 23, 2026, killing one crew member and leaving three missing, prompting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to condemn what she called another Russian escalation in the Black Sea. The Comoros-flagged Khoryv sent a distress [β¦]