DenizHaber wrote that no confirmed information existed on who carried out the attack and that Ukrainian involvement was being examined; why a ship on a route between two Turkish ports was attacked, it said, was not yet clear. Haber Denizde’s note, at 00:30 on Sunday, took the route from the records of the IMEAK Chamber of Shipping and gave Novorossiysk as the destination. Both routes are printed here as the two outlets gave them; neither gave a position or an hour.
DenizHaber’s ledger of the first two weeks of September, published on Monday, has eight vessels: the container ship Baryon under the Guinea-Bissau flag on 2 September, a bulk carrier and a container ship it did not name near Odesa on 3 September, the Liberia-flagged Suezmax Siren on 3 and 4 September, the Russian offshore support vessel Nefrit at Sochi on 4 September, the salvage tug Tedy on 9 September with two Azerbaijani crew dead, the search-and-rescue tug Sapphire damaged on 13 September, and the Lionfish.
Ankara’s foreign ministry has said nothing on either the Tedy or the Lionfish. Its press-release index stood on Monday evening at No. 178, Hakan Fidan’s visit to Syria on 13 September, after No. 176 and No. 177 of Saturday on the drone attacks on Saudi Arabia and the American arms embargo on the Greek Cypriot administration; 5 days after the Tedy was hit, the index carries no line on it.
Novorossiysk is the port through which the Caspian Pipeline Consortium loads more than 80% of Kazakhstan’s oil exports, and its fuel-oil terminal burned on 8 and 9 September. The Turkish coast has already received one hull from that stretch of water: the Russian-flagged Omskiy-107, assessed as struck in the Black Sea and partly burned, was found aground and empty at Sile’s Alacali beach east of the Bosphorus on 30 August, Sabah reported that day.
Ankara’s foreign ministry has said nothing on either the Tedy or the Lionfish.
No statement from Feeder Link, the Coastal Safety Directorate or the transport ministry appeared in either account of the Lionfish.