Two Russian oil tankers wrecked near Crimea

Vladimir Putin has misplaced over 1,000 troopers previously day as Russia pushes fowards to seize floor in japanese Ukraine, Kyiv’s armed forces mentioned.

It comes as Russian forces took management of the villages of Veselyi Hai and Pushkino in Ukraine’s Donetsk area, Russia’s defence ministry mentioned.

The ministry additionally mentioned Russian forces had hit and destroyed 4 Ukrainian Patriot air defence programs.

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has led to questions over Russia’s potential to maintain its army adventures overseas. Russia had supported Assad militarily for over a decade, constructing on longstanding ties between Moscow and Damascus.

However the speedy advance of anti-government forces this month noticed Russia apparently powerless to affect the state of affairs past quite a lot of airstrikes (as at all times, apparently largely delivered on civilian targets) in assist of presidency forces.

That has inevitably led folks to attract conclusions about Russia’s potential to undertaking energy abroad, and what it might imply for the course of the struggle in Ukraine.

Russian forces took management of the villages of Veselyi Hai and Pushkino in Ukraine’s Donetsk area, Russia’s defence ministry mentioned.

The ministry additionally mentioned Russian forces had hit and destroyed 4 Patriot air defence programs.

Britain shouldn’t be correctly ready to defend itself in a struggle with Russia and can’t depend on the US and Nato, a retired senior common has warned.

Writing in The Impartial, Sir Richard Shirreff, who served as Nato’s deputy supreme allied commander in Europe from 2011 to 2014, mentioned one other world battle will solely be prevented if there’s a “band of deterrent metal from the Baltic to the Black Sea” – one thing he mentioned the UK could should be ready to assist realise with out the assist of Washington.

His dramatic intervention comes alongside warnings from former defence secretary Ben Wallace and Labour peer Admiral Lord West {that a} failure to prioritise defence could be a grave error for the prime minister.

Russia has deployed North Korean troopers in important numbers for the primary time to assist its offensive in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned.

The Ukrainian president mentioned North Korean troops are reportedly being utilized in assaults on Ukrainian forces defending an enclave in Russia’s Kursk area.

“At the moment, we have already got preliminary knowledge that the Russians have begun to make use of North Korean troopers of their assaults. A big variety of them,” Mr Zelensky mentioned throughout his nightly wartime tackle.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says his nation might present meals support to Syria from its “Grain from Ukraine” programme.

“Now we might help the Syrians with Ukrainian wheat, flour and our oil – our merchandise which might be used worldwide to make sure meals safety,” Mr Zelensky mentioned.

Greater than 1,000,000 Syrians have been displaced since armed rebels started a lightning offensive that ultimately compelled president Bashar al-Assad in another country, ending his household’s 50-year rule.

A serious Russian oil depot was set ablaze after Ukrainian troops launched a “large drone assault” over 100 miles inside Russian territory.

The Stalnoy Kon oil refinery, a part of Vladimir Putin’s “army industrial advanced” that provides Russian troops, was struck in a single day on Friday, Kyiv’s chief of employees mentioned.

The Russian governor of Oryol mentioned on Telegram that gasoline had caught fireplace at “a facility” within the area after the “large drone assault”.

Russian media reported pictures, purportedly of the assault, displaying clouds of smoke billowing up into the evening sky from a fireplace.

A Ukrainian drone struck a campus of Russia’s Nationwide Guard in Chechnya, some 800km southeast of the entrance line in Ukraine, in accordance with reviews.

Chechen chief Ramzan Kadyrov confirmed the drone strike, saying it hit a web site that belonged to the Akhmat Grozny riot police battalion.

He mentioned two different drones have been shot down by Russian air defences.

The Russian defence ministry yesterday mentioned it downed 15 Ukrainian drones in a single day over Kursk and Belgorod areas.

The Ukrainian navy has criticised Russia for sending outdated vessels into uneven waters after a tanker sank and one other sustained extreme harm throughout a storm within the Black Sea.

The Volgoneft 212 tanker, with 15 folks on board, cut up in half and spilled oil into the Kerch Strait, positioned between mainland Russia and annexed Crimea.

Dmytro Pletenchuk, Ukraine’s navy spokesperson, mentioned: “These are fairly outdated Russian tankers. You possibly can’t go to sea in such a storm. The Russians violated the working guidelines. The result’s an accident.”