MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. The fate of two crew members of Ursa Major, who were missing during the evacuation following a terrorist attack on the cargo ship in the Mediterranean, is still ...

Strong explosions ripped through the engine room of the Russian cargo vessel Ursa Major, resulting in her untimely demise in the Mediterranean Sea. The incident occurred on Tuesday, approximately ...

Ursa Major is the flagship vessel owned by Oboronlogistika, a shipping company that moves cargo for Russia’s Defense Ministry. The company was sanctioned by the US State Department in 2022.

Oboronlogistika and SK-Yug, a company listed as the ship's direct owner and operator, were sanctioned by the United States in 2022 for their ties to Russia's military as was the Ursa Major itself.

Ursa Major was in the western Mediterranean at the same time as Sparta — another Russian cargo ship under U.S. sanctions — whose destination as reported Tuesday was Port Said in Egypt ...

A Russian-flagged cargo vessel has sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, per Russia's foreign ministry. The Ursa Major ship went down after an explosion in the engine room, the ministry said.

Spanish authorities said they received an alert around 1 p.m. local time on December 23 when the vessel, the Ursa Major, was roughly 100 kilometers from the coast of southeastern Spain.

LSEG ship tracking data shows the vessel departed from the Russian port of St. Petersburg on Dec. 11 and was last seen sending a signal at 2204 GMT on Monday between Algeria and Spain where it sank.

The Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC) in Spain’s Cartagena has ordered the captain of Norway’s Oslo Carrier 3 ship not to take on board the sailors of the Ursa Major dry cargo ship ...

Ursa Major was in the western Mediterranean at the same time as Sparta — another Russian cargo ship under U.S. sanctions — whose destination as reported Tuesday was Port Said in Egypt ...

MADRID (AP) — A Russian cargo ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria, leaving two crew members missing, Spain’s maritime rescue agency and the Russian Foreign Ministry s… ...