{"id":39951,"date":"2025-12-02T13:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/incident-with-the-midvolga-2-tanker-in-the-black-sea-ukraine-denies-involvement-accusations\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:41:59","slug":"incident-with-the-midvolga-2-tanker-in-the-black-sea-ukraine-denies-involvement-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/incident-with-the-midvolga-2-tanker-in-the-black-sea-ukraine-denies-involvement-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"Incident with the MIDVOLGA-2 tanker in the Black Sea: Ukraine denies involvement accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Georgiy Tykhyi, officially denied Ukraine&#039;s involvement in the incident with the MIDVOLGA-2 tanker, which was transporting sunflower oil under the Russian flag. He hinted that Russia might have staged the attack, as the vessel&#039;s route made no sense.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F12%2F02%2F1764682338-2542-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Incident with the MIDVOLGA-2 tanker in the Black Sea: Ukraine denies involvement accusations\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Heorhii Tikhyi, reacted to the incident in the Black Sea involving the MIDVOLGA-2 tanker, which was transporting sunflower oil under the Russian flag. This was reported by UNN with reference to Tikhyi&#039;s post on the social network &quot;X&quot;.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ukraine has no connection to this incident, and we officially deny any such accusations made by Russian propaganda. Furthermore, the alleged route from Russia to Georgia through Turkey&#039;s free economic zone makes no sense and suggests that Russia may have staged all of this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the post states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Context<\/h2>\n<p>In the Black Sea, an attack occurred on the MIDVOLGA-2 tanker, which was sailing under the Russian flag. The incident took place 80 miles off the Turkish coast, but no one on the crew was injured.<\/p>\n<p>There were 13 crew members on board, and all of them are currently safe.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>The Russian-linked tanker &quot;Mersin&quot; suffered four explosions near Dakar, Senegal. This resulted in seawater entering the engine room. This incident was the third in a few days; the SBU may be involved in the two previous incidents with Russian tankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Georgiy Tykhyi, officially denied Ukraine&#039;s involvement in the incident with the MIDVOLGA-2 tanker, which was transporting sunflower oil under the Russian flag. He hinted that Russia might have staged the attack, as the vessel&#039;s route made no sense. Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}