🔸Turkish maritime authorities said late Monday that three crew members of a cargo ship were severely injured after a drone attack near the port of Novorossiysk in the Black Sea.

🔸A witness video shows the injured sailors evacuating the ship with a smaller boat while the cargo vessel is still burning.

🔸The Turkish Directorate of Maritime Affairs said in a statement on 12 Mordad that the Nadezhda was sailing from Novorossiysk to the port of Samsun in northern Turkey on Monday, when it was attacked at about 20 nautical miles from Novorossiysk.

🔸The organization said that all 22 crew members were transferred to Russia, that three of them were seriously injured, and added that the fire was still burning in the bow of the cargo ship.

🔸It is not yet clear who was behind the attack on the cargo ship.