Greek-run tanker Skiros was attacked in the Black Sea on Sunday after loading a Russian-origin cargo at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium's CPC terminal near Novorossiysk, in the first reported strike on a vessel calling at the export hub after an almost three-week pause. The Suezmax-class ship can carry about 1 million barrels of oil, and Bloomberg reported the company said there were no injuries or pollution. The incident extends a pattern of attacks around the CPC route, which had already included the March 14 strike on the Greek-flagged Maran Homer while it waited in ballast to load Kazakh crude near Novorossiysk. The Financial Times reported that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy halted attacks on oil tankers using the terminal after US Vice President JD Vance asked during a July 31 call for them to stop, while Bloomberg earlier reported Kyiv agreed after talks that day not to target some non-Russian tankers and Black Sea infrastructure critical to Kazakh oil exports. Russia and Kazakhstan have condemned what they described as Ukrainian drone attacks on vessels loading at the terminal, and the repeated incidents have kept war-risk insurance and freight costs elevated in the Black Sea.