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Drone hits Turkish oil tanker near Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait

May. 6, 2026 – 14:21 – A naval drone struck a Turkish oil tanker carrying Russian crude oil in the Black Sea near Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait.