Sanctioned oil tanker is stranded off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast after suspected Ukrainian strike

Last week, the Gambian-flagged 274-meter Kairos caught fire after an alleged attack with Ukrainian naval drones in the Black Sea near the Turkish coast. The 149,000-ton Kairos, formerly flagged as Panamanian, Greek and Liberian, was built in 2002. The ship entered Bulgaria’s territorial waters on Friday under tow by a Turkish vessel, but the mission was abruptly abandoned, leaving the tanker to drift across the sea without power like a ghost ship before stranding less than a nautical mile off the shore.