A satellite image reveals smoke rippling from Russian Black Sea navy head office after a rocket strike, as Russia’s intrusion of Ukraine continues, in Sevastopol, Crimea, onSept 22, 2023.
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Russian air defense shot down over 30 Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula over night Saturday, Russia’s Defense Ministry stated Sunday.
“The air defense systems in place destroyed 36 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the Black Sea and the northwestern part of the Crimean peninsula,” the ministry composed on Telegram.
Local authorities in the southern Krasnodar area surrounding the Black Sea stated that a fire broke out at an oil refinery in the early hours of Sunday, however did not define the cause. “The reasons for the incident are being established,” a declaration from regional authorities stated, amidst claims in regional media outlets that the fire had actually been triggered by a drone strike or particles from a downed drone.
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Drone strikes and shelling on the Russian border areas and Moscow- annexed Crimea are a routine incident. Ukrainian authorities never ever acknowledge obligation for attacks on Russian area or the Crimean peninsula.
In Ukraine, the nation’s flying force stated Sunday it had actually shot down 5 Iranian- made Shahed blowing up drones introduced by Russia over night.
Close to the cutting edge in the nation’s east, where Ukrainian and Russian forces are secured a grinding fight for control, 4 policeman were injured when a shell fired by Russian soldiers took off by their police vehicle in the city of Siversk, situated in the partially inhabited Donetsk province.
British intelligence examined this weekend that Russia had actually suffered a few of its greatest casualty rates up until now this year as an outcome of continued “heavy but inconclusive” combating around the town of Avdiivka, likewise in the Donetsk province. The UK Ministry of Defence’s routine intelligence upgrade on Saturday early morning kept in mind that Russia had actually dedicated “elements of up to eight brigades” in the location given that it introduced its “major offensive effort” in mid-October
Also on Sunday, a popular ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin alerted that Russia may do something about it to take properties of European Union member specifies it thinks about hostile if the EU continues with its strategy to “steal” frozen Russian funds to assistance Ukraine’s post-war restoration efforts.
“A number of European politicians (…) have once again started talking about stealing our country’s frozen funds in order to continue the militarization of Kyiv,” Vyacheslav Volodin, the Chairman of the State Duma, the lower home of Russia’s parliament, composed on Telegram.
Volodin made the declaration in reaction to a statement on Friday by Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, on a proposition to utilize revenues from frozen Russian state properties to assistance Ukraine in its restoring.
Volodin asserted that Moscow would react with procedures that would cause considerable expenses on the EU if it were to do something about it versus Russian properties, a substantial part of which remain in Belgium.
“Such a decision would require a symmetrical response from the Russian Federation. In that case, far more assets belonging to unfriendly countries will be confiscated than our frozen funds in Europe,” Volodin stated.
