Overview
- The Sea Bridge left Trabzon on November 5 with 20 passengers and has been waiting off Sochi since November 6 for inspection and formal clearance to enter the port.
- SVS Shipping head Sergey Turkmenyan says the route holds all required documents and intends to continue sailings, adding the vessel received permission to enter Russian waters pending inspection.
- Krasnodar governor Veniamin Kondratyev says an earlier test voyage occurred without regional consent and calls regular service premature due to security and safety concerns.
- Russia’s Emergency Ministry issued a drone-danger alert for Krasnodar Krai, and the Defence Ministry reported 15 Ukrainian UAVs downed over Crimea, the Rostov region and the Black Sea as several regions cycled rocket or air-attack warnings.
- Separate transport incidents drew official responses, including a Novosibirsk crash that killed six people, a Kursk minibus collision that injured seven, and a brief closure of Moscow’s Novospassky pier after smoke on an electric river vessel.