{
 "publisher": "DroneLedger",
 "site": "https://droneincidents.com",
 "generated": "2026-10-13T09:47:02+00:00",
 "release": "20261013T094702325757-b25b7c",
 "license": {
  "name": "CC BY 4.0",
  "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "DroneLedger (droneincidents.com)",
  "excludes": "Quoted source passages and linked articles remain the copyright of their publishers; they are included as short quotations for verification. Fonts (SIL OFL) and map data (Natural Earth, public domain) keep their own terms. City and region names in automatically published dossiers are checked against GeoNames (geonames.org, CC BY 4.0). Drone drawings and animations are schematic illustrations of a type, not evidence about any incident."
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 "evidenceNote": "Each dossier separates three claims: drone presence, impact and attribution, each with its own evidence state and supporting sources. 'reported' means a source describes the claim without sufficient identification evidence; claims by parties to a conflict are never 'confirmed' on their own. Counts reflect dossiers in this curated archive, not all incidents worldwide.",
 "locationNote": "lat/lon are the dossier's own approximate coordinates (see locationPrecision) and are empty when the incident location is unknown. referencePoint {lat, lon, level, name} is a display reference only: a fixed point in the named city (GeoNames), region (its administrative seat), sea or country (Natural Earth label point), derived at build time. It is not a geolocation, not an estimate of the incident location and may change when the dossier's place becomes more precise: reference point; incident location unknown.",
 "howToCite": "Cite the dossier URL and revision, e.g. DroneLedger, “Drones strike cargo ship Chelsea 3 off Byala, Bulgaria; crew of 15 rescued”, dossier chelsea-3-drone-strike-off-byala-2026-10-13, revision 1, updated 2026-10-13. https://droneincidents.com/incident/chelsea-3-drone-strike-off-byala-2026-10-13/",
 "incident": {
  "id": "royad-mammadov-sinks-off-romania-2026-10-05",
  "title": "Grain ship Royad Mammadov burns and sinks off Romania; Ukraine blames Russian drones",
  "place": "Black Sea, about 20 nautical miles off the Romanian coast (Romanian exclusive economic zone)",
  "country": "Romania",
  "countryCode": "RO",
  "date": "2026-10-05",
  "dateKind": "event",
  "scope": "single",
  "category": "maritime",
  "droneStatus": "reported",
  "impactStatus": "confirmed",
  "attributionStatus": "suspected",
  "lat": 44.2,
  "lon": 29.1,
  "locationPrecision": "region",
  "summary": "The Turkish-owned grain ship Royad Mammadov caught fire and sank in Romania's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea on 5 October 2026; two people were killed and 11 rescued. Ukraine's president said two Russian drones struck the ship; Romanian authorities did not identify a cause.",
  "impact": "Two crew members were killed and 11 were rescued by Romanian vessels and helicopters; three injured sailors were airlifted to Constanța. Euronews reported one crew member missing. The ship, flagged in St Kitts and Nevis, had left Izmail in Ukraine's Odesa region bound for Ravenna, Italy, according to Euronews.",
  "evidence": "Drone involvement is so far a claim: by Ukraine's president, whose country is a party to the war, and by the head of a Romanian seafarers' union, who said aerial and sea drones were used. Romania's interior ministry reported the fire and the rescue but did not state a cause. Reported by Al Jazeera and Euronews.",
  "unknown": "Romanian authorities have not confirmed that drones caused the fire, and who launched them is not independently established. The exact position (Euronews: about 9 nautical miles from the Pescăruș platform, some 20 miles off the coast) and the number of missing crew differ between reports.",
  "attribution": "Suspected, not established: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attributed the attack to two Russian drones; this has not been independently established. The cited sources contain no Russian statement, and Romanian authorities did not name a suspect.",
  "sources": [
   {
    "label": "Al Jazeera: Ukraine says Russian drone attack sinks ship in Romanian waters",
    "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/ukraine-says-russian-drone-attack-sinks-ship-in-romanian-waters",
    "published": "2026-10-05",
    "family": "afp-ap"
   },
   {
    "label": "Euronews: Drone reportedly hits ship in Black Sea, killing two and injuring 11",
    "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/05/drone-reportedly-hits-ship-in-black-sea-killing-two-and-injuring-11",
    "published": "2026-10-05",
    "family": "euronews"
   }
  ],
  "timeline": [
   {
    "date": "2026-10-05",
    "text": "Romania's coastguard was alerted to a fire on the ship at about 11:00 local time; Romanian vessels and helicopters rescued 11 crew members.",
    "source": 0
   },
   {
    "date": "2026-10-05",
    "text": "President Zelensky said two Russian drones struck the civilian vessel, which was carrying corn.",
    "source": 0
   },
   {
    "date": "2026-10-05",
    "text": "Three injured sailors were airlifted to Constanța; one crew member was reported missing.",
    "source": 1
   }
  ],
  "droneStatusSources": [
   0,
   1
  ],
  "impactStatusSources": [
   0,
   1
  ],
  "attributionSources": [
   0,
   1
  ],
  "droneTypes": [],
  "claims": [],
  "review": "editor",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-13",
  "autoCheckedAt": null,
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-13",
  "revision": 2,
  "corroboration": "curated",
  "referencePoint": null,
  "labels": {
   "category": "Maritime attack",
   "droneStatus": "Reported",
   "impactStatus": "Confirmed",
   "attributionStatus": "Suspected"
  },
  "url": "https://droneincidents.com/incident/royad-mammadov-sinks-off-romania-2026-10-05/",
  "citation": "DroneLedger, “Grain ship Royad Mammadov burns and sinks off Romania; Ukraine blames Russian drones”, dossier royad-mammadov-sinks-off-romania-2026-10-05, revision 2, updated 2026-10-13. https://droneincidents.com/incident/royad-mammadov-sinks-off-romania-2026-10-05/",
  "history": [
   {
    "revision": 2,
    "date": "2026-10-13",
    "at": "2026-10-13T08:18:30.948+00:00",
    "note": "Attribution corrected after review: an accusation by a party to the war is recorded as suspected, not as a claim of responsibility."
   },
   {
    "revision": 1,
    "date": "2026-10-13",
    "at": "2026-10-13T06:48:58.748+00:00",
    "note": "Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line."
   }
  ]
 }
}