New Delhi, July 21 -- ODESA - The four Indian sailors had just cleared the outer harbor buoys when the missile found the ship. Ten people were killed on Monday when Russia struck a civilian corn vessel departing Odesa, Ukrainian authorities confirmed, among them four Indian nationals whose deaths drew immediate outrage from New Delhi and renewed global attention to what maritime insurers have long called the most dangerous commercial shipping corridor in the world.

The strike, reported by Reuters and Bloomberg based on Ukrainian port authority and Indian foreign ministry sources, adds to a years-long pattern of Russian attacks on commercial shipping in the northwestern Black Sea. Moscow has consistently characterised vessels targeted in ...