Black Sea ship attacks just crossed a line: a grain carrier sunk inside Romania's economic zone, two more ships hit off Bulgaria within 24 hours, and at least nine merchant vessels struck in four days. Why Russia is hunting the grain fleet, and what NATO's littoral states will not say.

The first naval drone battle in history: Ukraine's Sargan 3000 hunted down a Russian Orcan-type drone boat in the Black Sea and sank it with a 12.7 mm turret. How the fight went, and why the next one will not be this easy.

Ukraine went back to Novorossiysk and left the Admiral Essen burning. The General Staff now confirms three ships hit, plus the port's fuel oil terminal, in the second strike on Russia's fallback naval base in 28 days.

A Ukrainian naval drone slipped into Sochi's port on September 3 and blew up the Nefrit, a 90 meter supply ship with a strange resume. The Sochi drone attack extends the sea drone war to the deepest corner of Russia's Black Sea coast.

Ukraine's sea drones and long-range strikes have turned the Sea of Azov into a closed box: 242 ships hit since July 6, a 90 percent traffic collapse, and a Kerch Strait reported shut for six weeks. The morning read for August 24: a naval blockade built from drones, no navy required.

Ukraine's Navy put FP-2 strike drones into Bastion coastal missile positions at Rezervne, south of Sevastopol, the launchers behind the Oniks strikes Ukraine struggles to intercept. With Hvardiiske's ammo dump burning and the Syvash rail bridge hit again, the Crimea squeeze is working down its checklist. The catch-up sitrep for August 17.

HUR's Group 13 used Magura naval platforms as floating FPV launchpads to burn two S-400 launchers and an Orion drone control antenna in Crimea, days after drone units torched an S-400 battery at Gelendzhik. Russia's premier air defense is being hunted from the water.

Zelensky confirms a unique operation against Novorossiysk, the Black Sea Fleet's last main outpost: Palianytsia jet drones, Neptune missiles, and naval drones in a single package. Fires at the Sheskharis oil terminal, 15.6 million tonnes of grain capacity halted, and OSINT shows the naval yard burning.

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces report 12 more shadow fleet vessels hit this week, 218 since July 6, with Azov traffic reportedly down 90 percent and the Kerch Strait shut for 30 straight days. The claims are Kyiv's, but the numbers are starting to look like a blockade.

Ukraine's Navy and SBU hit the Syvash rig at the Golitsyn field, a Black Sea platform Russia used to control attack drones and watch for Ukrainian sea drones. The same night, deep-strike drones set fires at the Ilsky and Syzran refineries, 15.1 million tonnes of capacity between them.

SBU drones damaged the FSB patrol ships Balaklava and Kerch at their moorings in occupied Crimea, the same night the Slavneft-YANOS refinery in Yaroslavl burned for a second night. Open-source reporting now counts at least seven claimed hits on the Svetlyak class since spring.