A Russian warship is attacked in the Gulf of Finland, leading it to turn back and return to port. Finland’s military says there is no immediate threat, while Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, says it carried out the strike, targeting the Russian ship Naro-Fominsk.
The SBU links the attack to a broader drone operation aimed at a Kremlin oil export depot in the Baltic Sea. Outlets also describe it as the first time Ukrainian drones have targeted a Russian vessel in an open part of the Baltic with civilian maritime traffic.
BBC and Bloomberg frame the event as an expansion of the drone campaign into the Gulf of Finland, while Metro adds extra situational detail around timing and broader diplomatic activity involving US envoys travelling between Moscow and Kyiv’s side, noting that talks produce no major breakthrough beyond a planned prisoner swap.
