Ukrainian drone strikes forced Russia to stop shipping in vital sea corridor ⁠53%

By Jeremy Hsu⁠25%

7/13/2026, 8:41:26 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Framing Effect, and Biased Writer Voice, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 46.6% saturation with 229 hits. Analysis detected 1,726 faulty-reasoning hits from 491 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 51.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠53% (10,456 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 52.20% of the article peer group.

Ukrainian drone strikes have forced Russia to completely halt shipping in the Sea of Azov in less than a week—showing once again how a country without traditional naval power can still effectively blockade maritime corridors. 
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces have flown one-way attack drones to target and strike more than 100 Russian tankers and other ships every night between July 6 and July 13, along with posting video evidence showing such drone strikes. 
The campaign has forced Russia to completely shut down the shipping route that flows from Russia’s Don River into the Sea of Azov, and to halt all Kerch Strait shipping transits from the Sea of Azov into the Black Sea, according to Reuters reporting. 
The shutdown of such maritime lanes has further isolated the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula by cutting off seaborne delivery of fuel in particular. 
Crimea had already been experiencing severe fuel rationing and power outages as Ukraine stepped up its mid- and long-range drone strike campaign on Russian energy infrastructure and supply lines, leaving behind damaged oil refineries with billowing black smoke and burned-out trucks littering highways. 
Restrictions on shipping in and out of the Sea of Azov could also impact one-quarter of Russian grain exports, Reuters reported. 
Wheat prices have started rising because Russia is the world’s largest exporter of grains. 
“Ukrainian strikes against Russian seaborne gasoline transports over the past week represent a new phase in Ukraine’s efforts to isolate occupied Crimea from the Russian logistics network and to disrupt Russian seaborne shipping routes, especially for petroleum products and grain,” according to the Institute for the Study of War, a think tank based in Washington, DC. 
The Ukrainian videos showing the strikes from the drones’ perspective typically cut off at the moment of impact. 
But burning ships are visible in some videos taken of the aftermath and can also be seen in public satellite imagery from the European Union’s Copernicus Sentinel satellites and other sources. 
Ukrainian drones have also been attacking Russian ships in the Black Sea and beyond. 
On July 8, the Security Service of Ukraine posted a video showing a Sea Baby naval drone striking a crude oil tanker when it was supposedly located near the southern end of the Crimean Peninsula, according to Ukrainska Pravda. 
In December 2025, Ukraine even sent aerial drones to strike a “shadow fleet” tanker carrying sanctioned Russian oil in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya’s coast. 
Such feats show how Ukraine has managed to counter Russia’s traditional naval superiority and pressure Russian shipping lanes without fielding a naval force of crewed surface warships or submarines. 
A similar scenario is playing out in the Strait of Hormuz shipping chokepoint, where Iran now claims the authority to charge a transit fee and has used drone and missile strikes to halt much of the usual commercial shipping traffic despite the large presence of US military warships and aircraft. 
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