Sozcu carried the remarks at 12:40. Andrey Kolesnik of the State Duma defence committee said freezing the line of contact as it stands is unacceptable to Moscow, because it would mean stopping partway through taking the regions Russia claims. The remarks originated on the Russian outlet OSN on Monday afternoon. No Kremlin or foreign ministry answer to Hakan Fidan's proposal has surfaced in the wires, and no Ukrainian answer of any kind.
DenizHaber published footage from aboard the dry cargo ship ATA 2 at 15:56 on Tuesday. A hole in the upper deck, the accommodation block and the bridge heavily damaged, and the vessel able to steam only on a backup manual control system. The attack itself was on 31 July. What is new is the imagery, the damage assessment and the crew breakdown: all 13 survived, 12 of them Azerbaijani nationals and one Turkish. The ship is to be brought to Istanbul for repair. DenizHaber describes it as Turkish-owned and reports a Panama flag, which no registry read has confirmed.
Cahit Istikbal, who chairs the Maritime Safety Association, told MK TV on Tuesday morning what he wants from Ankara: diplomacy, evidence, a safe corridor. He specified systematic preservation of evidence, meaning drone fragments, camera footage, AIS records and damage documentation, and a corridor mechanism on the model of the grain deal. Naval escort would not by itself breach Montreux, he said, and it would carry serious escalation risk. He speaks for the sector rather than the state.
The straits did not move. No new pause, no new restriction and no new insurance measure appeared in the maritime press on Tuesday, and the officials' line of 9 August stands. Gulluk has not been reported arriving at Istanbul.
The tanker Aegean Dream has still not transmitted since 12:16 UTC on 10 August, about 25 hours by Tuesday afternoon. Its stated arrival at the CPC terminal is unchanged at 06:00 UTC on 13 August. A ship in trouble slips its arrival time. This one has not moved its arrival time by a minute.
A ship in trouble slips its arrival time. This one has not moved its arrival time by a minute.
The consortium itself has published nothing in its own name since 30 July.