Three commercial vessels with Indian crew have been attacked in the Black Sea within a single week. Five Indian sailors are confirmed dead. Two more, from MV AGN Ragnar, remain missing. As the death toll among Indian sailors in the Black Sea continues to rise, questions are mounting over who is actually responsible for protecting them, informing their families, and compensating them when disaster strikes on the high seas.

The Probe’s Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Prema Sridevi, spoke to Manoj Joy, Head of Virtual Support, India, at Sailors’ Society, an international organisation that works on seafarer welfare and has directly intervened in cases of Indian crew stranded or in crisis abroad. The conversation covered the AGN Ragnar attack specifically, and the much larger, largely unreported crisis facing Indian sailors across the world’s most dangerous shipping corridors.

The Probe’s Editor-in-Chief Prema Sridevi speaks to Manoj Joy, Head of Virtual Support (India) at Sailors’ Society, about what Indian seafarers are really facing in the Black Sea war zone, and the much larger, largely unreported crisis facing India’s merchant navy.

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