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Bayesian superyacht sinking: Safes on tycoon Mike Lynch’s sunken boat ‘may contain intelligence service data’

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Divers searching British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht off Sicily have found safes holding potentially sensitive intelligence data, sources have claimed.

Local law enforcement reportedly now fear that foreign governments such as China and Russia may become interested in the boat - and have asked for extra surveillance to protect it, CNN reports.

Through Lynch’s companies , he was associated with multiple intelligence services - including British and American - particularly through his cyber security company, Darktrace.

The Bayesian boat is believed to have watertight safes with two super-encrypted hard drives containing confidential intelligence information, an official within the recovery team told the US new outlet.

Lying at a 50-metre depth, the wreckage is expected to be raised in the following weeks as part of a criminal investigation into its sinking on 19 August.

Francesco Venuto, of the Sicilian Civil Protection Agency, told CNN:  “A formal request has been accepted and implemented for additional security of the wreckage until it can be raised.”

Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among eight people to die when the yacht sank last month.

Investigators hope to recover data on sinking of Bayesian

Navy divers recovered hard drives of the video surveillance system on board the Bayesian hopefully revealing the final moments before the tragic sinking of the superyacht.

In the engine room there were the hard disks that catalogued the parameters regarding the electric and thermal propulsion.

“We hope to be able to read something from the media”, an investigator told La Repubblica. They added “Unfortunately they are standard models that are not resistant to water and pressure”.

There was no black box on board the 700-tonne sailing vessel that sank in minutes. It was not required to have one, as it was not a commercial cruise ship.

Darktrace set to leave London Stock Exchange at end of September

Darktrace shares are set to stop trading publicly at the end of September, after the company set a timetable for its blockbuster private equity takeover to be completed.

The private equity group Thoma Bravo struck an almost 5.31 billion dollar (£4.3 billion) deal to buy Darktrace, co-founded by Mike Lynch, in April.

It marks one of the biggest take-private deals for a London-listed company in recent years, and will see Darktrace leave the FTSE 100 on October 1.

Founded in 2013, Cambridge-based Darktrace is a cybersecurity firm best known for using artificial intelligence to scan for hacks and data leaks inside IT networks.

The update comes after Poppy Gustafsson stepped down as chief executive earlier in September amid the takeover.

Ms Gustafsson helped to set up the Cambridge-based company in 2013 alongside Autonomy founder Mike Lynch.

Mr Lynch, and his daughter Hannah, were among seven people to die after the Bayesian superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily last month.

‘Mike Lynch files may be target for hostile spy agencies’

Divers are searching the sea floor for Mike Lynch’s high-tech hard drives before they can fall into enemy hands reports La Repubblica - Italy’s second-biggest newspaper.

Sources told the paper the disks held: “the great digital archive of the IT entrepreneur whose clients included the British MI5, the American NSA and the Israeli services”.

The Italian newspaper said the “super drives” are protected by “cutting-edge encryption”.

The Sun reported the drives now could be a target for the hostile spy agencies of Russia, China, and Iran as they seek to steal valuable secrets.

Mike Lynch had ties to spy chiefs and intelligence agencies

A report has emerged classified intelligence information possibly sitting 50 metres deep in the Bayesian superyacht.

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, who died in the sunken yacht, was known to have links with intelligence services around the world, including British and American.

This link partly came from his cybersecurity firm Darktrace, which he founded in 2011 in partnership with former UK intelligence officials, Politico report.

Co-founder Stephen Huxter became managing director of the company. He previously ranked highly in MI5’s cyber defense team.

Darktrace is used to fight off cyberattacks, by learning the behavioural patterns of actors in an organisation and detecting any unusual activity.

Former MI5 chief Jonathan Evans sat on the company onboard, and Jim Penrose, who worked on the US National Security Agency, led the company’s operation in America.

A number of other intelligence figures were also involved. with Darktrace.

Lynch also had other ventures which were linked with spy agencies. Cambridge Neurodynamics, a company specialising in fingerprint recognition for computers, was contracted by UK intelligence services.

Bayesian yacht may contain safes with confidential intelligence data, sources say

Divers have requested heightened security after finding watertight safes which may contain highly classified information, sources told CNN.

Authorities confirmed that they are seeking heightened security, with sources suggesting confidential intelligence information on the boat may be of interest to Russia and China.

An official working with the team salvaging the boat said the vessel is believed to contain watertight safes with two super-encrypted hard drives, CNN reports.

Francesco Venuto of the Sicilian Civil Protection Agency told CNN: “A formal request has been accepted and implemented for additional security of the wreckage until it can be raised.”

Bayesian captain said to be ‘living darkest days of his life'

Three crew members including the yacht’s captain are under investigation, with plans being discussed to raise the yacht from the ocean bed to assist enquiries.

Sources close to New Zealander James Cutfield, 51, the captain , told the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera that he is living through the darkest days of his life.

Among those killed were Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, who had been due to begin studying at Oxford University in September, the yacht’s chef and four other family friends and associates.

Mike Lynch net worth: How the billionaire made his money

Mike Lynch was frequently described as the Bill Gates of Britain for founding Autonomy – one of the biggest software firms on the planet

Former captain claims Mike Lynch’s wife was always concerned about boat safety

The wife of Mike Lynch, 57-year-old Angela Bacares managed to escape to safety after suffering cuts from broken glass as she went to try and save her husband and daughter, according to la Repubblica.

The newspaper said she told doctors that at 4am, the boat had tilted and she and her husband were woken up.

Former captain Stephen Edwards told The Telegraph, Ms Bacares “always wants to know what is happening and what the crew are doing”.

“She is always the first person to come up to the bridge if she hears us scuttling about up there. That could explain why she was saved and Mike wasn’t.”

The “worn out” captain of the Bayesian superyacht that sank off Sicily killing seven including billionaire Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter is not responding to prosecutors’ questions as they pursue manslaughter charges, his lawyer said.

James Cutfield, a 51-year-old New Zealand national, is under investigation for possible manslaughter and culpable shipwreck charges and was questioned by the Termini Imerese prosecutors three times.

His lawyer Aldo Mordiglia said of his client: “He just exercised his right to remain silent, probably prosecutors were expecting that.”

Cutfield was among 15 survivors of the sinking on August 19 that killed Mr Lynch, his daughter Hannah and five others.

“The captain exercised his right to remain silent for two fundamental reasons,” lawyer Giovanni Rizzuti told reporters.

“First, he’s very worn out. Second, we were appointed only on Monday and for a thorough and correct defence case we need to acquire a set of data that at the moment we don’t have.”

Being placed under investigation in Italy does not imply guilt and does not mean formal charges will necessarily follow.

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Missing revealed as divers search superyacht that sank in storm off Sicily

The missing include british tech magnate mike lynch, a morgan stanley boss and a clifford chance lawyer, a local official told nbc news early tuesday., by claudio lavanga, yuliya talmazan | nbc news • published august 20, 2024 • updated on august 20, 2024 at 4:20 pm.

Rescue teams and divers were searching Tuesday for six missing people, including a British tech magnate and a Morgan Stanley boss,   after  a luxury superyacht sank in a storm off Sicily .

The identity of those still missing emerged after an initial search of the 184-foot sailboat, named the Bayesian, was unsuccessful Monday. The British-flagged tourist vessel had 22 people aboard when it sank because of “a violent storm” off Sicily’s main city, Palermo, around 5 a.m. local time (11 p.m. ET) on Monday, the local coast guard said.

Fifteen people were rescued by a boat present in the immediate vicinity and then brought ashore by coast guard vessels, but six passengers, including American, British and Canadian citizens, remained missing, it said. They were believed to be trapped in the boat's hull, some 164 feet underwater, posing a challenge to divers who returned to the site Tuesday off Porticello, near Palermo.

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Salvatore Cocina, director of Sicily’s Civil Protection Agency, told NBC News early Tuesday that the missing include British tech magnate Mike Lynch and his daughter, Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, as well as Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife.

Cocina did not specify the nationalities of the missing. He also did not identify Lynch's daughter or the wives of Bloomer and Morvillo.

A spokesperson for Clifford Chance, where Morvillo works as a lawyer, confirmed to NBC News Tuesday that he and his wife Neda were among the missing. 

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“Our utmost priority is providing support to the family as well as our colleague Ayla Ronald, who together with her partner, thankfully survived the incident,” the spokesperson said.

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Italy’s national fire department said that its divers were able to get inside the wreck during a late-night dive Monday, inspecting some cabins located under the bridge, but were having trouble navigating because of obstructions and narrow access gates.

Rescuers said that there might be bodies inside the cabins but that they had so far been unable to check through the ship’s portholes.

Divers were working in 12-minute underwater search shifts, while surface searches continued in the area of ​​the shipwreck with a helicopter and a fire brigade boat, it added.

Mike Lynch, who was regularly described in U.K. media as “Britain’s Bill Gates,” was cleared of fraud charges in a blockbuster U.S. trial earlier this summer. Sources told CNBC on Monday that his wife, Angela Bacares, has been rescued. Italian news agency ANSA identified his daughter, missing alongside her father, as Hannah, 18.

Just days before Lynch went missing, his co-defendant, Stephen Chamberlain, died after being “fatally struck by a car” while out running Saturday, his lawyer Gary Lincenberg told NBC News in an emailed statement. Reuters reported that Chamberlain was a former vice president of finance at Autonomy, Lynch’s company at the center of the trial.

The sailing vacation that ended in tragedy appeared to be something of a celebration after Lynch’s acquittal — Morvillo was one of Lynch’s U.S. lawyers and Bloomer testified in his defense.

“We are deeply shocked and saddened by this tragic event. Our thoughts are with all those affected, in particular our Chair, Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Judy, who are among the missing,” Aki Hussain, the head of insurance company Hiscox, told NBC News in an emailed statement.

A Morgan Stanley spokesperson also said: “Our thoughts are with all those affected, in particular the Bloomer family, as we all wait for further news from this terrible situation.”

Judy Bloomer was described as “a brilliant champion for women’s health and medical research” by The Eve Appeal, a British cancer charity, in an emailed statement to NBC News.

Britain's Marine Accident Investigation Branch said it was deploying a team of four inspectors to Palermo to conduct a preliminary assessment of the incident.

The coast guard said in a statement Monday that the ship’s cook had died. It did not give his nationality. Reuters identified him as Antiguan citizen Ricardo Thomas.

One of the survivors, identified as Charlotte Emsley, 35, told the Italian news agency ANSA that she had momentarily lost hold of her year-old daughter, Sofia, in the water but managed to retrieve her and hold her up over the waves until a lifeboat inflated and they were pulled to safety.

Built by Italian shipbuilder Perini Navi in 2008, the U.K.-registered, Bayesian can carry 12 guests and a crew of up to 10, according to online specialist yacht sites.

The yacht’s nearly 250-foot mast is the tallest aluminum sailing mast in the world,  according to  CharterWorld Luxury Yacht Charters. 

Luca Mercalli, Italian climatologist and president of the country’s meteorological society, told Reuters that the storm could have involved a waterspout, essentially a tornado over water, or a downburst, a more frequent phenomenon that doesn’t involve the rotation of the air.

Storms and heavy rainfall have swept Italy in recent days after weeks of scorching heat.

“The sea surface temperature around Sicily was around 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), which is almost 3 degrees more than normal,” Mercalli said. “This creates an enormous source of energy that contributes to these storms.”

Claudio Lavanga reported from Rome, and Yuliya Talmazan from London.

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The Superyacht Market Just Lost Some of Its Best Customers. It Doesn’t Care.

The 2022 Palm Beach International Boat Show is getting under way this weekend in Florida with all the lavishness you’d expect: $1.2 billion worth of boats glistening along the inland waterway, a VIP pavilion with open bar, and an accompanying contemporary-art fair. What it won’t have is many customers from the country that until recently was the second-largest market in the world for high-end yachts. Russia, which according to market observers has made up 9 percent of the total superyacht market , has been abruptly sidelined by the west’s unprecedented economic sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine . You’d never know it from the way the yacht market is booming.

“2022 started extremely well and we have seen strong sales activity across the board, which we expect to continue,” says Richard Lambert, head of sales at the yacht-brokerage firm Burgess, which sold more than $2 billion worth of yachts last year.

Losing a tenth of your customer base isn’t such a big deal, apparently, when the market is white-hot. For one thing, the sort of person who might buy a superyacht — often defined as any vessel for personal use over 131 feet in length — is in plentiful supply these days. Though the COVID pandemic triggered a worldwide recession , it saw the number of the world’s billionaires climb from 2,095 to 2,755 and their cumulative wealth increase by 60 percent, or $5 trillion .

If the sudden disappearance of Russian yacht buyers does ultimately have an effect, it may only be at the very highest end of the market. “Clients from Russia and the Middle East have a higher average length of yachts,” says Merijn de Waard, founder and director of SuperYacht Times . “They are more keen on the very big boats.” According to the publication’s statistics, the average Russian-owned superyacht is 200 feet long, compared to 177 feet for American-owned ones. Of the 13 superyachts that are over 140 meters in length (459 feet), nine are owned by Arab royalty and four of them are owned by Russians. Or maybe five. Italian authorities are currently holding the 459-foot Scheherazade in a small port on the Tuscan Coast. The owner might be the richest Russian of all, Vladimir Putin — no one’s completely sure.

Boats built for this clientele tend to have a decoration style reminiscent of a Vegas high roller’s suite, with amenities that would make a Roman emperor blush: helipads, glass-bottomed infinity pools, outdoor fireplaces, hammams and Russian banyas, interactive art on video walls, 3-D cinemas, motorboats, amphibious ATVs, giant slides, scuba-dive centers, ten-person submarines, and garage space for helicopters and SUVs.

The expense of owning such vessels only begins with the purchase of the boat itself. The biggest yachts are often accompanied by smaller superyachts to carry additional gear and crew. Owners spend around 15 to 20 percent of the cost of the yacht to cover maintenance and staff, which can number more than 80 crew members.

As you might expect, yacht-buyers from the land of the Fabergé egg would tend to fall at the ostentatious end of the spectrum. If the idea of a helicopter landing on your boat makes you think, But where will my other helicopters land? , then you’ll appreciate fore-and-aft twin helipads, like Russian state oil-company chairman Igor Sechin has on his 445-foot yacht Crescent . Feel like the underwater observation bubble from The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou needs to be a real thing? Fertilizer baron Andrey Melnichenko’s 469-foot Sailing Yacht A — currently the largest sail-assisted vessel in the world — has a cushion-lined pod with panoramic windows of foot-thick glass set into its keel.

Security always being always a concern for those of high net worth, bulletproof glass is a popular feature on the higher-end superyachts. To keep away prying eyes, Roman Abramovich’s $610 million Solaris is equipped with a system that tracks unknown drones and another that automatically detects and disables digital cameras. For those worried that things might escalate, a more bespoke option is an anti-aircraft missile system like the one rumored to be installed on the 512-foot Dilbar , owned by metals-and-mining oligarch Alisher Usmanov.

American yacht-buyers aren’t known for quite that level of extravagance, but their portion of the market is going strong. The top nationality for superyacht purchases, Americans purchase about a quarter of all those sold. “It’s the American clients who are driving the market,” says de Waard.

Another reason the market is so hot is that it has been rebounding from a slowdown during the first year of the pandemic, when sales of superyachts dipped amid travel restrictions and general uncertainty. Sales then rebounded sharply, leaving fewer used yachts available for purchase and generating a backlog at major shipyards. If anything’s holding back the superyacht market, it’s not lack of customers but lack of supply, de Waard says.

That might change if a chunk of those seized Russian yachts were dumped on the market. But that’s not going to happen anytime soon. For starters, the legal status of the seizures is murky. No country has yet taken formal possession of oligarchs’ yachts . “These are just orders freezing the assets, that is, immobilizing them until the sanctions are lifted, rather than actual forfeitures,” wrote Martin Davies, director of the Maritime Law Center at Tulane Law School, in an email. “Under most countries’ laws (including the U.S.), forfeiture can only take place if the asset-owner is convicted of a criminal offense, which I don’t think would be the case in relation to these oligarchs.”

There’s a paradox in the extraordinary flamboyance of the biggest superyachts. These boats are all about display and swagger, enabling the richest of the rich not only to flaunt their wealth but to move it around from scene to scene. And yet their owners are swathed in layers of secrecy. Many hide their ownership via shell companies and require contractors and crew members who work on their yachts to sign nondisclosure agreements. In part to peel back these layers of secrecy, the U.S. and other western countries last week formed the Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs (REPO) task force to identify and freeze oligarchs’ assets. The U.S. also began offering rewards of up to $5 million for information leading to the seizure of illegal assets linked to the Russian government.

The Scheherazade is particularly mysterious. It rarely leaves its berth in Marina di Carrara, Italy, where its crew have installed a cover to hide its nameplate and a metal barrier along the pier to shield it from the gaze of onlookers . The investigative team headed by jailed dissident Alexander Navalny was able to trace the identity of its crew and determined that many of them belonged to the Federal Protective Service, a Russian state agency charged with protecting state assets and high-ranking personnel. And the yacht has twice sailed to the Russian Black Sea resort town of Sochi, a favorite haunt of Putin’s.

This combination of extravagance and secrecy is characteristic of other markets where Russian oligarchs have sunk their wealth, such as real estate and art. Here, too, market insiders say that the Russian pullout has done little to damp a tidal wave of money coming in from the ever-swelling global plutocracy.

High-end New York City realtor Dolly Lenz says her firm has been getting calls from Russian clients looking to quietly get on the “whisper list” of offerings that aren’t publicly available for sale. “They’re getting ready to pull the trigger. Meaning, ‘Yes, I’ll take whatever the best offering can get me,’” Lenz told Fox Business News .

But this incipient flight is doing nothing to chill the market. “Ultra-luxury is on fire,” says Manhattan realtor Alison Rogers. “The rich have been getting richer even during the pandemic, and they have to put their money somewhere.”

The art market is roaring, too. According to the online art-market site Artprice , the total value of art sold at auction around the world last year was $17 billion, up 60 percent compared to 2020.

If there’s a lesson in this, it’s that while the world of luxury capitalism is extremely welcoming to newly minted rich people and their billions of uncertain provenance, it isn’t particularly sentimental about their leaving.

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Inside the modern-day superyachts, which are packed with extras like Imax theaters, 'ski rooms,' and miniature hospitals

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According to The New Yorker, the conservative megadonor Robert Mercer's yacht — the $90 million Sea Owl — was put up for sale recently.

The yacht reportedly comes furnished with "several auxiliary boats, a Steinway piano, a variety of frescoes, and a security system that requires fingerprint recognition."

Bold, another superyacht, "styled like a warship" and featuring a helipad, was profiled.

The New Yorker reported that more and more yachts have begun embracing "novelties" like Imax theaters ...

... miniature onboard hospitals, complete with pathogen-testing equipment ...

... and "ski rooms where guests can suit up for a helicopter trip to a mountaintop."

According to The New Yorker, different groups of vastly wealthy people tend to gravitate toward clashing styles.

According to the article, wealthy Middle Eastern sheikhs often commission "baroque indoor spaces" to beat the heat.

Meanwhile, Russian oligarchs often install spaces for banyas — steam baths that are significant in Russian culture.

Other wealthy superyacht owners rely on showstopping artwork to awe passengers.

Infamously, the Saudi crown prince hung up Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" — the most expensive painting ever sold — on his superyacht. Some claim the painting is not genuine.

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Who was on superyacht that sank off Sicily?

Twenty-two people were on board the Bayesian superyacht including British technology tycoon Mike Lynch, his wife and 18-year-old daughter, and Morgan Stanley International boss Jonathan Bloomer.

Friday 23 August 2024 12:34, UK

Details have emerged of the 22 people who were on board the superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily.

The British-flagged vessel named Bayesian was carrying 12 passengers and 10 members of crew when it got into difficulty in the early hours of Monday.

Seven bodies have now been recovered. The other 15 people on board were rescued.

Here's what we know about those who were on the yacht.

Follow latest updates on the superyacht sinking

British technology tycoon Mike Lynch was among the original six people missing. On Thursday, divers confirmed his body had been recovered.

Raised in Ilford, east London by Irish parents, the 59-year-old made millions with the software company Autonomy he set up in 1996.

He had an estimated net worth of £852m, according to the 2023 Sunday Times Rich List, and is believed to have owned the yacht.

Off the back of Automomy's global success, Mr Lynch was given the roles of science adviser to former prime minister David Cameron and non-executive director of the BBC.

The Cambridge maths and sciences graduate sold the firm for £8.64bn to US giant Hewlett Packard (HP) in 2011.

Dubbed the "British Bill Gates", Mr Lynch has been in the headlines in recent months over a high-profile fraud case related to the sale of Autonomy to HP in 2011.

HP accused him of deliberately overstating the value of the company before it was acquired by the American technology firm. Mr Lynch denied any wrongdoing.

In June, a US jury cleared him of all charges .

Read more: Lynch's co-defendant dies days before yacht disaster

Hannah Lynch

Mr Lynch's 18-year-old daughter Hannah Lynch was also on board. A body believed to be that of the teenager was recovered on Friday from the yacht wreckage.

She had been on holiday with her parents, having secured a place to study English at the University of Oxford, according to reports.

Her former school, Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, west London, said they were "incredibly shocked by the news that Hannah and her father are among those missing in this tragic accident" when the yacht first sank.

Angela Bacares

Mr Lynch's wife Angela Bacares was on board the yacht and was rescued.

The 57-year-old said she and Mr Lynch were awoken by the boat "tilting" at 4am - half an hour before it sank.

Jonathan Bloomer

Jonathan Bloomer, the chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley International, was confirmed dead on Thursday.

According to the Financial Times, Mr Bloomer appeared as a defence witness for Mr Lynch during his US criminal trial and the pair were good friends. He also chaired Autonomy's audit committee.

The 70-year-old was the chief executive of UK-Hong Kong insurer Prudential until he was ousted by the board in 2005.

He was also chairman of the insurance provider Hiscox.

Judy Bloomer

Mr Bloomer's wife Judy was on the yacht trip with her husband. Divers confirmed they found her body on Thursday.

Mrs Bloomer was a former board member at The Eve Appeal charity, which focuses on gynaecological cancers.

The charity described her as a "brilliant champion for women's health and medical research... an incredible supporter, committee member, and trustee of our charity for over 20 years".

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Recaldo Thomas

The yacht's on-board chef Recaldo Thomas died in the sinking.

He was Canadian-Antiguan and part of the crew of the Bayesian.

His body was the first to be recovered from the wreckage.

Chris Morvillo

US lawyer Chris Morvillo was among those divers found dead on Thursday.

The father-of-two worked on Mr Lynch's US fraud trial and was a partner of law firm Clifford Chance's US branch.

Mr Morvillo was assistant attorney for the Southern District of New York between 1995 and 2005 and worked on the terrorist investigation into the 9/11 attacks.

In a recent LinkedIn post, he thanked the legal team that helped win Mr Lynch's trial.

Signing off the post, he said: "And, finally, a huge thank you to my patient and incredible wife, Neda Morvillo, and my two strong, brilliant, and beautiful daughters, Sabrina Morvillo and Sophia Morvillo.

"None of this would have been possible without your love and support. I am so glad to be home. And they all lived happily ever after…."

Neda Morvillo

Mr Morvillo's wife Neda died in the disaster alongside her husband.

The 57-year-old had a luxury jewellery brand, which she ran under her maiden name Neda Nassiri.

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Ayla Ronald

Ayla Ronald, a senior associate at Clifford Chance, survived the yacht disaster, the law firm confirmed.

The 36-year-old worked alongside Chris Morvillo in helping defend Mike Lynch in court.

Clifford Chance said in a statement: "Our utmost priority is providing support to the family as well as our colleague Ayla Ronald, who together with her partner, thankfully survived the incident."

She is originally from Christchurch, New Zealand, but lives in London, her father told local media there.

He said she was left "very shaken" but "she and her partner are alive".

Charlotte Golunski

Charlotte Golunski was on board the yacht and was rescued along with her one-year-old daughter, Sofia.

She spoke to Italian newspaper La Repubblica, confirming she survived the yacht sinking and told how she kept her daughter alive after she was rescued.

"I held her afloat with all my strength, my arms stretched upwards to keep her from drowning," she said.

"It was all dark. In the water I couldn't keep my eyes open. I screamed for help but all I could hear around me was the screams of others."

The 35-year-old is a partner at one of Mr Lynch's firms - Invoke Capital - and has worked there since 2012, according to her LinkedIn profile.

She also worked at Hewlett Packard, which acquired Autonomy in 2011, for 11 months.

Before that, she studied history at the University of Oxford.

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James Emsley

Ms Golunski's partner James Emsley was also rescued from the yacht, according to Sicily's civil protection agency.

The 36-year-old is the father of her one-year-old daughter.

James Cutfield

The 51-year-old captain of the yacht spoke to Italian newspaper La Repubblica after he was rescued.

Mr Cutfield, from New Zealand, was taken for treatment at the Termini Imerese emergency unit, where he told the newspaper: "We didn't see it coming."

Leah Randall

Leah Randall was part of the Bayesian crew and survived the sinking.

She was pictured going ashore in Porticello on Monday morning and is from South Africa.

Her mother Heidi told Sky News said she was "beyond relieved that my daughter's life was spared by the grace of God".

"It doesn't make it any easier living with the heartache of those who have lost their lives [or are] missing. My very deepest condolences to the chef's family as they formed a great friendship," she said.

Katja Chicken

Katja Chicken was another South African member of crew on board the Bayesian and was pictured being brought to safety in Porticello on Monday.

The Italian coastguard confirmed on Tuesday evening that Leo Eppel, a crew member, also survived the yacht sinking.

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Civil Forfeiture Complaint Filed Against $300 Million Superyacht Amadea Involved In Sanctions Evasion

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael Khoo and David Lim, Co-Directors of Task Force KleptoCapture, announced today the filing of a civil forfeiture complaint against the Motor Yacht Amadea , a 348-foot luxury vessel reportedly worth over $300 million.  The Complaint alleges that the superyacht, which is beneficially owned by Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, was improved and maintained in violation of applicable sanctions against Kerimov and those acting on his behalf.  The Complaint alleges that the Amadea is forfeitable based on violations of U.S. law, including International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”), and money laundering violations.  

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “The filing of this complaint exemplifies that the United States takes sanction evasion seriously and will use all tools at its disposal to ensure that sanctioned individuals are held accountable for their crimes.  I thank our partners with Task Force KleptoCapture as well as the dedicated prosecutors of this office for their important work holding Russian oligarchs responsible and aiding our allies in Ukraine.”

Co-Director of Task Force KleptoCapture Michael Khoo said: “The United States brings this action today after a careful and painstaking effort to develop the necessary evidence showing Suleiman Kerimov’s clear interest in the Amadea and the repeated misuse of the U.S. financial system to support and maintain the yacht for his benefit.  Getting to this point required extensive cooperation across the U.S. government and with foreign partners.  It underscores our resolve to undertake challenging, cross-border investigations and to send a message to Russian oligarchs and their enablers: if you flout the rule of law, you can expect to pay real and meaningful consequences.”

According to the allegations in the Complaint filed in Manhattan federal court today: [1]

On April 6, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) designated Kerimov as a Specially Designated National (“SDN”) under IEEPA in connection with its finding that the actions of the Government of the Russian Federation in Ukraine constituted an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.  In imposing sanctions, OFAC determined that Kerimov benefited from the regime of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, and played a key role in advancing Russia’s malign activities.  As alleged, Kerimov never sought a license from OFAC authorizing any transactions including any transactions in connection with expenditures related to the yacht.  On or about September 30, 2022, OFAC redesignated Kerimov as an SDN.

In September 2021, following Kerimov’s designation by OFAC, Kerimov arranged to purchase the superyacht Amadea , contracting with the seller to receive use rights to the vessel even before Kerimov had completed payment or obtained title to the vessel.  Kerimov gained beneficial ownership of the vessel in or about September 2021 through a series of transfers between shell companies conducted in a manner designed to conceal his ownership of the yacht.  Between in or about July 2021 and in or about September 2021, beneficial ownership of the Amadea was transferred from the former title holder, Nereo Management Ltd., to Millemarin Investments Ltd., which was incorporated approximately 30 days before the sale.  Ownership of the Amadea was then transferred to Errigal Marine Limited, another newly incorporated company, which was used to obscure Kerimov’s beneficial ownership of the Amadea .  Beginning in October 2021 through the date the yacht was seized by Fijian authorities in April 2022, Kerimov and/or his family members took multiple trips aboard the Amadea , planned extensive renovations to the Amadea , made long-term plans for the Amadea ’s travel schedule, and assumed all liability and responsibility for the Amadea ’s upkeep and running costs.

During that time period, individuals and/or entities acting on Kerimov’s behalf accrued U.S. dollar-denominated costs necessary for the upkeep of the Amadea and sent or caused to be sent through the U.S. financial systems payments in satisfaction of those expenses, in violation of applicable sanctions.

The Amadea is currently under the control of the U.S. Government in San Diego, California, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which was enforced by a court order issued by the Republic of Fiji following a request from the United States.  The United States is deeply grateful to the Fijian police and prosecutors whose perseverance and dedication to the rule of law made this action possible.

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Mr. Williams praised the outstanding investigative work of the FBI New York Field Office’s Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force.  Mr. Williams further thanked the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, as well as the U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Embassy Suva, and the Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, for their assistance and cooperation in this investigation.

On March 2, 2022, the Attorney General announced the launch of Task Force KleptoCapture, an interagency law enforcement task force dedicated to enforcing the sweeping sanctions, export restrictions, and economic countermeasures that the United States has imposed, along with allies and partners, in response to Russia’s unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine.  The Task Force will leverage all the Department’s tools and authorities against efforts to evade or undermine the economic actions taken by the U.S. government in response to Russian military aggression.

This case is being handled by the Office’s Money Laundering and Transnational Criminal Enterprises Unit in partnership with the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section and the National Security Division.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Mortazavi and Trial Attorneys Joshua L. Sohn and Andrew D. Beaty are handling the investigation.

A civil forfeiture complaint is merely an allegation that money or property was involved in or represents the proceeds of a crime.  These allegations are not proven until a court awards a judgment in favor of the United States.

[1] As the introductory phrase signifies, the Complaint and the description of the Complaint set forth herein constitute only allegations, and every fact described should be treated as an allegation.

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New York’s bright lights, lavish hotels and world-famous skyline may be more commonly associated with a city break rather than as an idyllic anchorage. But the city is more accessible by superyacht than you think, says Caroline White.

Truman Capote called New York a “diamond iceberg floating in river water”. The metropolis certainly has lustre – but that river water he backhands by way of contrast is at least beautifully convenient.

New York is a short hop from the classic seascapes of New England, and a spectacular endpoint to a cruise past the windswept dunes and clapboard villages of America’s eastern seaboard. Eddie Jordan, who dropped anchor here last year in his 27 metre Oyster sailing yacht Lush after a golfing tour of the coast, called it an “indescribable experience to be in the middle of New York” on a yacht: “I had to pinch myself”.

It’s often said that New York is a city for the very rich and the very poor, and that duality applies to the waters of the Hudson as much as the streets of Brooklyn: arrival by boat is firmly associated with the “huddled masses” of Emma Lazarus’s famous sonnet, engraved into the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. But this is also a city whose finest vistas are reserved for the waterborne, whoever they are – just ask the ferry companies stacking up the 20 dollar bills of day trippers. Or Roman Abramovich, whose 162.5 metre Eclipse has moored up at Manhattan’s port 90 (more commonly used by cruise ships). Many other famous superyachts have visited in recent years, from 133.9 metre Serene to 73 metre Grace E – and the city is surprisingly well equipped for them.

“We can take up to 175 feet (53 metres) with around 14 feet (4 metres) of draft,” says Michael Revier, general manager of North Cove Marina at Brookfield Place, which was the base for the 35th America’s Cup qualifiers. In terms of rules and regulations, he says, “New York has the same requirements you’d find anywhere in the US. The difference with New York as opposed to, say, Fort Lauderdale, is because the volume of foreign flagged private vessels is fairly low; there is not really a central clearance location. So usually I recommend captains call us first, and then we walk them through it. We need to schedule a customs inspection sometimes, and they may or may not need a pilot depending on where they’re going and the size of the boat.”

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Downtown used to be a dry spot for anything other than racking up a profit on Wall Street. In the 1987 film of the same name, Gordon Gekko famously said, “lunch is for wimps”, which is lucky because as Kristi Blake, director of PR and communications for Four Seasons New York Downtown, puts it: “When I first moved to New York there was nothing here, nothing open on a weekend – not even a restaurant to go to for lunch. It’s changed a lot in the last five years.”

Trendy tech companies, advertisers and media including Spotify, Condé Nast and Time Inc have moved in from mid-town and a host of fashionable restaurants, bars and hotels have popped up to cater to them, transforming this into a district worth visiting. From the living room of the Hudson Suite, high up in the Four Seasons, the vista sweeps from the revitalised World Trade Center complex opposite, down to the sun-streaked streets of Manhattan. This modern low-lit glamorous of a hotel is at the vanguard of Downtown’s rebirth. A short stroll from North Cove Marina, it is a convenient pied-à-terre for weary seafarers. The hotel sprawls from a monolithic lobby up to 189 rooms and suites decorated with warm greys, limed woods, leather bedheads and touches of glitz in pearlescent tiles and mirrored art deco minibars. Opened just a year ago, the tech is fresh too, with a menu of lighting settings, an in-room iPad for room service and even a Four Seasons Chat app for easy access to concierge services. A dramatic art collection includes a giant bronze seashell by Mark Quinn and a cascade of mirrored strips by Hirotoshi Sawada, hung in the stairwell to emulate an inverted skyscraper.

Off the lobby is chef Wolfgang Puck’s steak restaurant CUT, which with its black lacquer and scarlet drapes, looks like it’s been set dressed by David Lynch. It specialises in melt-in-the-mouth Wagyu and imaginative cocktails and is worth a stop even if you sleep onboard your yacht – as is the spa. There are plenty of top-flight bars nearby, including the internationally renowned but utterly unpretentious cocktail spot Dead Rabbit, named for the 19th-century street gang made famous by The Gangs of New York film.

A few blocks further north, The Mark hotel lies in the heart of Manhattan’s most traditionally chichi neighbourhood, the Upper East Side. This boutique Madison Avenue bolthole, with its monochrome marble entrance hall, sumptuous neutral-toned rooms and doormen with waistcoats and lashings of old-fashioned charm, is a classic hideaway for visiting superyachters. Suitably then, this summer the hotel is once again offering its 70 foot 1920 Herreshoff sailing yacht Ventura for private charter by its guests. The boat will set sail from Tribeca southwards to explore the harbour. Its black-and-white striped décor keeps up with the hotel in the style stakes and The Mark’s resident chef, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, designed the menu of “small bites”.

Back at the hotel, windswept guests can be re-coiffured at the hotel’s Frederic Fekkai Salon, or sip a cocktail at the bar with its undulating chrome and Campari-toned lighting. For dinner, chef Jean-Georges’ mothership (forgive the pun) is The Mark restaurant, thickly upholstered and moodily-lit it feels as if you should be engaging in a midnight tryst. Menu essentials include the crispy sushi – mouthfuls of fried bliss – and The Mark Cheeseburger with black truffle dressing and brie, or the lobster burger with gruyere and yuzu pickles (there are plenty of very grown-up options, but his line in glamour burgers is showstopping).

Back on board your own yacht, you are remarkably free to explore the city. “It’s a public waterway,” says Revier. “You can navigate anywhere you would expect to be able to. There are restriction zones around sensitive areas, such as the Statue of Liberty, but we’re talking 100 metres so no big deal. There are also bridge restrictions in the Harlem River, so if you want to circumnavigate (Manhattan) that could be a challenge depending on how big the boat is.”

Popular day cruises include the route north up the Hudson River, skirting Manhattan as far as the George Washington Bridge, or south to Ellis Island, the inspection station through which more than 12 million immigrants to the US poured from the late 19th to the early 20th century (and a much more rewarding to explore than the Statue Of Liberty, which is best experienced from your boat).

Standing on Ellis Island, with the sunshine blazing the terracotta bricks of the museum, the river water that chops at the dock and spans out towards the grandest cityscape on earth, seems to have a romance all of its own.

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The Atlanta Braves are back at home for a crucial three-game series with the New York Mets. While the offense has been a dilemma for much of the season, some key Braves bats have shown they can get the job against the division rival. 

Here are three bats to keep an eye on when the series gets underway on Tuesday.

Marcell Ozuna

Naturally, the best hitter on the team has a lot of success against the Mets. In 10 games this season against New York, Ozuna is batting .361 with a 1.091 OPS, three home runs and seven RBIs. 

He’s been in a power slump with one home run over his last 31 games. This could be an opportunity for Ozuna to regenerate some of that lost power. Even if not, he’s still having no trouble getting on base. He’s been batting .310 with a .389 on-base percentage during his power drought and has scored 14 runs. 

While he’s been sharp at the plate as of late, Olson hasn’t been the same ballplayer most of this season. However, if there is one team he has looked like his usual self against, it’s the Mets. 

He’s batting .263 with a .912 OPS with three home runs and seven RBIs against the Braves’ division rival this season. All 10 games happened during his slump. Between the date of the first Mets game this season on April 8 and the most recent game on July 28, Olson batted .220 with a .668 OPS. 

No matter the situation, if there is a hitter the Braves can count on during the next three games, it’s Olson. 

Ozzie Albies

So there are two reasons to keep an eye on Albies in this series. One is because he does generally hit well against the Mets. In six games , he’s batting .269 with a 783 OPS, one home run and six RBIs. 

Another reason is that he could get some favorable matchups this week. Remember, he’s batting right-handed only for the time being. However, he’s getting to face two left-handed starters. 

When facing left-handed pitchers this season, Albies is batting .340 with a .903 OPS. He’s only faced lefties as a righty this season. So, this is a big chance for him to have some big moments in a push for the playoffs.

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Superyacht builder sues mike lynch’s widow for £186 million after tragic bayesian sinking in sicily.

The £30 million superyacht Bayesian, owned by Mike Lynch, sank after a violent downburst in Sicily, killing seven.

A lawyer representing the company that built Mike Lynch's superyacht, which sank last month, killing him and six others, including his 18-year-old daughter, has filed a lawsuit seeking £186 million from his widow and the crew.

The tragedy occurred when the Bayesian, a £30 million superyacht owned by Darktrace founder Mike Lynch, sank within 16 minutes after being struck by a violent downburst in Porticello, Sicily, killing seven people.

Among the victims were Mr. Lynch, 59, his 18-year-old daughter, Morgan Stanley International president Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judith, New York lawyer Chris Morvillo, his partner Neda, and the chef Recaldo Thomas.

The lawsuit, filed in a Sicilian court on Friday and first reported by Italian newspaper La Nazione, alleges the sinking caused severe reputational damage and financial losses to the Italian Sea Group (IGS), the shipbuilder.

Though Lynch’s family is reportedly outraged by the "disgraceful" move, IGS stated that the lawyer, Tommaso Bertuccelli, was not "authorized" to file the lawsuit and has been instructed to withdraw it immediately.

The company said: “The Italian Sea Group… strongly denies the claims published in La Nazione regarding a legal action following the Bayesian tragedy. Although TISG has given a generic mandate to the lawyers named in the article, no legal representative of the company has examined, signed or authorized any writ of summons.”

The legal documents reportedly name the yacht's captain, James Cutfield, two other crew members, Camper & Nicholsons (the yacht management company that hired the crew), and Revtom, the Isle of Man-based company that owned the Bayesian, which is controlled by Lynch’s widow, Angela Bacares, who survived the incident.

A family source told *The Times*: “The Italian Sea Group should be ashamed. [IGS CEO] Giovanni Costantino is a disgrace, desperately trying to shift blame. He rushed to the media before all the bodies had even been recovered, showing his lack of decency. Now, it seems, he wants to sue his own clients.”

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At Northrop & Johnson, we prioritize your personal needs. Your yacht is a sanctuary for you, your family, and friends. To ensure we find the perfect match, we take the time to understand your lifestyle, how you intend to use the yacht, and whether you plan to charter it to offset some of the running costs. With this insight, we can recommend the most suitable mega yacht from our exclusive collection.

Whether you’re drawn to a sleek, modern motor yacht or a timeless, classically styled gentleman’s yacht, our diverse selection of superyachts for sale is sure to impress. Connect with our exceptional brokers today and experience firsthand how we go above and beyond for our clients.

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The Yachts are Cool, The Topic is  Hot

While the summer heat may be sizzling hot, so are superyachts. Publications such as The New York Times , The New Yorker and Vanity Fair have been buzzing about these massive seafaring vessels — it truly is the “gilded age” of boating. Stories have run the gamut, from the growing yacht industry, to the unique new builds and epic sizes ( grande please ). Talk about well-planned timing! As of November, our renovated Palm Beach Marina is now accommodating superyachts up to 294’ feet, and as the good surfers we are, we’re riding the cusp of the wave.

The world has been experiencing the greatest boom ever in the yachting industry. According to The New Yorker , a record 887 superyachts were sold in 2021, two times the number sold in 2020. As The New York Times says, “During the pandemic…boats have gotten larger and more expensive.” Yacht owners are taking to whimsical designs, including customizing their vessels to look like sharks and creating secret rooms (per the Robb Report). Bob Denison, owner of the brokerage company Denison Yachting, goes on to say in The New Yorker , “Every broker, every builder, up and down the docks, is having some of the best years they’ve ever experienced”— we definitely are. After being open for less than a year, our Palm Beach Marina has over 90% of its slips reserved, and our lease revenues have well-exceeded the $8.8 million projection. 

Superyachts are the pinnacle of luxury travel, and as we know there is no better way to stay socially distant (during the pandemic) than being in the middle of the ocean. Besides, Leonardo DiCaprio may come to the rescue — yes, we’ll share our raft “Jack Dawson.” According to Vanity Fair , celebrities from Elon Musk, Matthew McConaughey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Degeneres to Chris Rock are vacationing aboard glamorous yachts all over the world. Did they pit stop at our Marina between cruising the Caribbean, Europe, and the Mediterranean? We’ll never tell.

In recent years, Palm Beach County has been transforming into a superyacht hub. Its International Boat Show has grown exponentially, and made a big public splash in The New Yorker . The show became a jumping-off point for a think piece about high-net-worth owners and their massive floating boats. Palm Beach County is currently home to three facilities that can accommodate superyachts: Rybovich, Palm Harbor, and of course, our Palm Beach Marina — the only one anchored in our extraordinary Town. As Carolyn Stone, Assistant Town Manager, told Forbes in an article about our facility, “Many of our Palm Beach Marina customers live in town part of the year and they prefer to have their yacht close by for easy access. And when you live on Palm Beach, you don’t really want to have to leave the island. It’s a paradise.” 

This lifestyle has appealed to superyacht brokerage companies internationally. TJB Super Yachts , a brokerage company based in London, is expanding into Palm  Beach this year. Their driving strategy in opening a branch was because of the $40 million renovation of the Palm Beach Marina. They boasted about our addition of ten new slips to accommodate vessels 200+ feet, our upgraded shore power, and state-of-the-art technology. "The location allows TJB Super Yachts to meet the demand for larger yachts from an “exclusive marina” projected to rival Fort Lauderdale and Miami,” says Senior Charter Broker.

From Barcelona to the United States, superyachts have been the talk of the town. Who doesn’t love a good boat story? We are just glad our renovation at the Marina was a timely success. Docking in Palm Beach gives slip holders the ability to make a brief stop along their ocean voyages and enjoy the charm, excellent service, and unique amenities of the Town. Reserve your slip today! For more information, visit TheTownOfPalmBeachMarina.com .

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Timmerman Yachts was founded in 2003 and named after Franz Timmerman (1644-1702) who introduced Dutch boat building methods to Russia in the 17th century. Timmerman is credited with convincing Peter the First of both the importance and the charm of maritime affairs and he was entrusted with the construction of great fleets of both naval and trading vessels. As well as forging links between two Great European Embassies, Franz Timmerman was also able to arrange for Tsar Peter to study at the Amsterdam boat yards where the Tsar got his "Certificate of Timmerman" as ship joiner.

The yachting company continues this very successful Russian-Dutch partnership, with more than 1000 people who studied in Holland now working at Timmerman Yachts at the Moscow Shipyard in Russia. The name of Franz Timmerman, co-founder of the Russian Navy, is honoured in the title of this project. "Our aim is to build the best motor yachts from the point of view of the ratio “price-quality”, combining in them the newest technologies of European yacht-building with reliability of Russian ship-building, having military roots" -  Dmitry Mironenkov, the president of Timmerman Yachts.

Timmerman has  powerful production capabilities, broad experience, exceptional  specialist knowledge, and cooperation with the leading Dutch Naval Architects which enable them to realize the most incredible and daring ideas into their superyacht projects. The consortium enables its client to receive a luxury motor yacht with unlimited range and best consumer qualities, at an attractive price and in reasonable time. Names of the luxury yachts delivered by Timmerman include motor yacht Victoria M (2008), megayacht ALEXANDRA (2008), motor yacht Kitty (2008), New Star , (2006), M/Y Nord Star , (2005), Smile (2004) M/Y Olsten 125' ( 2004), and motor yacht Pallada (2003), Novaya Zvezda (2006).

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Ukraine Hits 2 More Russian Munition Depots, Aiming to Disrupt War Effort

Strikes on weapons arsenals are crucial to weaken Moscow’s overwhelming superiority in battlefield firepower, analysts said.

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By Constant Méheut

Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine

Ukraine said on Saturday that it had struck two large ammunition depots deep inside Russia overnight. It was the second such attack in less than a week as Kyiv seeks to escalate hits on Russian military bases and warehouses to try to disrupt Moscow’s military logistics and slow its troops’ advance on the battlefield.

The strikes announced on Saturday targeted ammunition depots near the towns of Toropets, in northwestern Russia, and Tikhoretsk, in the country’s southwest. The facilities are both more than 200 miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory, and one has been identified as a major storage facility for munitions Russia has acquired from North Korea.

Ukraine said its armed forces had struck the depot near Toropets with drones, but it stopped short of specifying the types of weapons used in the attack on Tikhoretsk, saying only that the arsenals had been “hit by fire,” raising the possibility that it had used a new kind of weapon.

The attack came as Kyiv has been pressing its allies for weeks to let it use powerful, Western-delivered missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia. That authorization has yet to be granted, according to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky , and in the meantime his country has sought to modify missiles and drones already in its arsenal for long-range use.

Moscow has not directly acknowledged the strikes on the depots, but regional authorities said that a drone attack on Tikhoretsk had “caused a fire that spread to explosive objects” and triggered detonations. Some 1,200 residents were evacuated from the area . The Russian state news agency Tass reported that a drone attack near Toropets had forced the evacuation of a train station and the suspension of traffic on a highway .

NASA satellites detected multiple fires at the two depots on Saturday. The attack came four days after another ammunition depot near Toropets was hit by Ukrainian drones, causing a huge explosion, with videos showing large fireballs lighting up the night sky.

Strikes on weapons arsenals are crucial for Ukraine to weaken Russia’s overwhelming fire superiority on the battlefield, military experts have said. Every week, Moscow bombards Ukrainian frontline positions and cities with missiles, guided bombs and artillery shells. Ukrainian soldiers have long been outgunned at the front, with Mr. Zelensky saying in April that Russia fires 10 shells for every Ukrainian one.

Serhii Kuzan, chairman of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, a nongovernmental research group, said, “The only way to defeat the Russian Army is to defeat its logistics,” most specifically by destroying its ammunition depots.

“This is the destruction of the most key component of warfare,” he added. “Tanks and guns without ammunition will not fire and will simply be ineffective.”

The earlier attack on an ammunition depot this week took place on Wednesday, just outside Toropets, and appears to have caused serious damage. NASA satellites continued to detect fires at that depot on Saturday, and satellite imagery released by the British Defense Ministry showed destroyed storage bunkers and 280-foot-wide craters.

The British ministry said that the depot “almost certainly housed munitions of varying calibers for frontline use, as well as missiles and glide bombs used by nearby airfields.”

Col. Ants Kiviselg, head of Estonia’s military intelligence center, told journalists on Friday that “30,000 tons of explosive ordnance were detonated” in the attack, the equivalent of about 750,000 shells.

“That’s two to three months’ supply of ammunition” for Russian forces in Ukraine, he noted. “As a result of this attack, Russia has suffered losses in ammunition and we will see the impact of these losses on the front in the coming weeks.”

His assessment could not be immediately confirmed.

It is unclear whether Saturday’s attacks had a similar impact. But one of the two depots that was targeted, the one near Tikhoretsk, has been used as a storage site for North Korean munitions shipped to Russia, as documented by several think tanks and confirmed by the White House last fall .

Since late 2022, Russia has turned to buying shells and missiles from North Korea , which has a vast supply of Soviet-era weaponry, U.S. officials and independent analysts have said.

Many of those weapons arrived at the Tikhoretsk depot, whose storage capacity has recently been increased, according to reports by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and the London-based Royal United Services Institute .

Imagery from late September 2023 “shows trains arriving at the facility, delivering dozens of containers of the same size and colors as those being loaded in North Korea,” the institute’s report said.

The Ukrainian Army said that 2,000 tons of ammunition, including some from North Korea, had been delivered to the depot shortly before Saturday’s strike. The claim could not be independently verified.

Ukrainian officials have said that the injection of North Korean weapons into the battlefield, particularly artillery shells, has helped Russian forces maintain an edge.

“Of all Russia’s allies, our biggest problem is North Korea,” Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, said at a security conference last week in Kyiv. “Because with the volume of military products that they supply, they actually affect the intensity of the fighting.”

Analysts say that the Tikhoretsk depot has also been an important nexus in supplying Russian forces. It is roughly equidistant from the combat zone in southeastern Ukraine and from Crimea, the Russian-occupied peninsula that has been an important logistics hub for funneling ammunition to the rest of the southern front.

The full array of weapons Ukraine used to attack the depots is unclear.

Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow for air power and technology at the Royal United Services Institute, said it was “entirely possible to set off ammunition stored in the open even with relatively small warheads” carried by attack drones “if they hit the right place.”

But Mr. Kuzan said that the ammunition depots were often protected with earth berms and underground concrete shelters that made them difficult to attack with drones.

“To do this you need not just a missile, it must be a heavy missile,” he said, pointing to long-range weapons supplied to Ukraine by Western allies, such as the British-French Storm Shadow missiles.

But Ukraine has so far been barred by its allies from using those weapons inside Russia. Mr. Zelensky told journalists on Friday that the White House was afraid that such an authorization would escalate the war. He said he would use a trip to the United States next week to try to persuade President Biden to lift the ban.

To circumvent it for now, at least partially, Ukraine has begun developing its own weapons, such as anti-ship missiles modified for land attacks, which it says it has already used to target Russia’s oil infrastructure. Kyiv also says it has developed long-range rocket drones that carry large warheads and can strike targets hundreds of miles away.

Constant Méheut reports on the war in Ukraine, including battlefield developments, attacks on civilian centers and how the war is affecting its people. More about Constant Méheut