“Oil Tanker off Syria coast on fire; Govt says drone attack,” AP, April 24, 2021.

The supposed motive.  “The reason? To subvert an inevitable US military counterstrike against Iran by the creation of a spontaneous “human shield” made up of dozens of foreign government officials who all started flying into Iran five hours after the initial IRGC short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) attack on US and Canadian forces in Iraq.”  See “Evidence Suggests Iran Shot Down Ukrainian Plane ‘Intentionally’,” Asharq Al-Awsat, April 24, 2021.