The Yuriy Olefirenko was struck Monday in the port of Odesa, the ministry said on Telegram.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday that its Aerospace Forces destroyed Ukraine's last warship with "a high-precision weapon." Russia says it destroyed last Ukrainian warship ∙ Despite launching 20 nighttime drone and missile attacks across Ukraine in May, the Russian military has taken a reactive stance as it waits for the long-expected Ukrainian counteroffensive, the British Defense Ministry said, adding that those efforts have been undermined by the need to assign troops to plug gaps around Bakhmut. ∙ The German government is making Russia close four of its five consulates in Germany in response to Moscow setting a limit for the number of staff at the German embassy and related bodies in Russia. "Today Bakhmut is ruins and ashes,'' he said. ∙ Of the 70,000 people who lived in the eastern city of Bakhmut before the war, only about 500 remain, Mayor Oleksiy Reva told ukrinform, saying 204 residents have been killed and 505 injured. ∙ Two oil refineries in southwest Russia were hit by drones, causing a fire in one of them, according to Russian officials, who did not assign blame for the incidents. ∙ Mercenary leader and frequent Russian military antagonist Yevgeny Prigozhin said he has requested prosecutors examine whether Russian Defense Ministry leaders committed a crime in their preparation and execution of the "special military operation'' in Ukraine. "That being the case, any of its public officials (either military, or civil, who facilitate the war) can be considered as a legitimate military target.'' Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Ukraine not only has the right to defend itself within its soil, "but it also does have the right to project force beyond its borders to undermine Russia's ability to project force into Ukraine itself.”Ĭleverly's remarks were greeted with the bluster and vitriol that have become typical of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now the deputy head of the country's Security Council.īritain is essentially "leading an undeclared war against Russia,'' Medvedev tweeted. German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said Wednesday that "international law allows Ukraine to carry out strikes on the territory of Russia for the purpose of self-defense." reiterated its position Wednesday when National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told CNN the Biden administration has “been clear, privately and publicly, with the Ukrainians that we don’t support attacks on Russian soil.”īut some U.S. Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the attacks, and the U.S. Gladkov had said a man was killed and two others were seriously wounded by Ukrainian shelling Tuesday, the same day Moscow buildings were evacuated after being hit by drones, a rare instance of the war reaching the Russian capital.
Vyacheslav Gladkov said four people were injured and several buildings and houses were damaged by artillery strikes in Shebekino, Reuters reported. A regional governor in Russia said Wednesday that a town in his border province was shelled by Ukrainian forces for the third time this week, adding to the debate over whether Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory constitute self-defense.īelgorod Gov.
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