The Ukrainian military's attack on the Yanina, a vessel owned by the FESCO Transport Group, which is part of Rosatom, is an act of piracy and maritime robbery, the state corporation’s CEO Alexey Likhachev said. "Around 10:00 p.m on July 31 [around 7:00 p.m. GMT on July 31], two Ukrainian military maritime drones attacked our vessel. Such an attack cannot be interpreted as anything other than piracy and maritime robbery," Rosatom quoted Likhachev as saying in a statement. According to the official, all crew members were promptly rescued from the sinking ship. Early in the morning on August 1, the Yanina vessel was damaged and sank in the Black Sea, 130 miles from Novorossiysk, as a result of a Ukrainian maritime drone attack.