#SeaBaby drones can now carry a tonne of explosive and go up to 1,000 miles meaning they are now able to hit almost anywhere in the #blacksea said a spokesperson for the #Ukrainian security service.
🇺🇦 Navy has sunk or disabled a third of all 🇷🇺 warships in the #BlackSea. 🇷🇺 is unable to replace them with new warships or submarines in the Black Sea under Art. 19 of the Montreux Convention.
🇷🇺 advance 1 km towards #ChasivYar , employing scorched earth tactics. The village of #Ivanivske , standing between 🇷🇺 and Chasiv Yar town, has been leveled to the ground, while the Ukrainians’ goal is to slow the Russian advance before the new defense line along the canal is ready.
🇺🇦 struck 🇷🇺 #BlackSea fleet on the night of March 24. Two large amphibious assault ships and a reconnaissance vessel were reportedly damaged.
🇷🇺 cruise missile entered airspace in #Poland at 04:23am
🇺🇦 conducts one of the largest strikes against military targets across occupied #Crimea:
🇷🇺 #BlackSea Fleet communications complex;
🇷🇺 large landing ships 'Yamal' and 'Azov';
🇷🇺 oil depot near Simferopol;
🇷🇺 Su-27 jets (x2);
🇷🇺 military base (x40 ☠️).
🇷🇺 launched a large-scale attack across #Ukraine. 🇺🇦 downed 18/29 Kh-101/55 cruise missiles, and 25/28 Shahed drones overnight.
The top U.S. #intelligence ofcl on Mon warned that the #war in #Gaza could embolden #terrorist groups, which are aligned in their opposition to the #UnitedStates for its support of #Israel.
“The crisis has galvanized #violence by a range of actors around the world. And while it is too early to tell, it is likely that the Gaza conflict will have a generational impact on #terrorism,” #ODNI#AvrilHaines, told an annual hearing on #GlobalSecurity#threats.
W/a steady supply of US-provided equipment, “Ukraine can hold its own on the front line… into 2025,” Burns said. Kyiv could continue deep strikes into #Russia & also conduct ops against Russia’s naval forces in the #BlackSea, putting Ukrainian forces in a position potentially “to regain the offensive initiative” early next yr, he added.
A Russian #missile strike appeared to target #Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wed, landing near his motorcade in the #BlackSea port city of Odessa, where the president was meeting w/ #Greece PM Kyriakos #Mitsotakis.
Zelensky & members of the Greek delegation were not harmed, despite the missile landing some 500 feet away.
German Defense Minister Pistorius on conversations with generals intercepted by the Russians:
“The reason why it was still possible to record a telephone conversation among the ranks of the Air Force lies in an individual error… Not all participants followed the procedure of secure call.
According to reports, the data leak occurred on a participant from Singapore, who was connected via an unauthorized connection, i.e. effectively via an open connection" #AureFreePress#News#press#headline
...of deployment of #NATO troops in an armed conflict with the imperialist #Russian war machine.
While #Putin stooge #TFG has ordered his #MAGAT minions to block #Ukraine aid in the #House, the sinking moral in the #Ukrainian trenches need a big boost. Carrying the war behind enemy lines and destroying the remainder of the #BlackSea fleet might just throw them the necessary lifeline.
At the time of the alleged crimes, #Kobylash was the commander of Long-Range Aviation of the Aerospace Force in the #Russian Armed Forces, while #Sokolov was commander of the Russian Navy’s #BlackSea Fleet.
The #ICC’s pretrial chamber found that the “two suspects bear responsibility for missile strikes carried out by the forces under their command against the Ukrainian electric #infrastructure from at least 10 Oct 2022 until at least 9 March 2023.”
Today, we had a largish raid group of 11+ to take on an #OriginFormePalkia in - it turned out to be a good raid.
Just for fun, my strongest ditto was backing up my mega salamence who was in #1 position. Turns out that the ditto's shapeshift did not cancel out my salamance's mega form which was a happy surprise 😁
The #Kremlin has relocated some of its #BlackSea assets from #Crimea to its #Novorossiysk base in Russia's #Krasnodar region, further from #Ukraine's coastline. Moscow is also thought to be establishing another base in #Abkhazia, a breakaway region internationally recognized as part of #Georgia.
🇺🇦 Magura V5 naval drones inflict critical damage to 🇷🇺 Project 775 Ropucha-I-class large landing ship Ceasar Kunikov in the #BlackSea, near #Crimea.
🇺🇦 continues to fight back in #Avdiivka, destroying a column of 🇷🇺 heavy armoured vehicles and inflicting high losses on 🇷🇺 invaders who advanced a few more hundred meters south and north of the destroyed city.
The ship's sinking was confirmed by the General Staff of #Ukraine's Armed Forces.
It is the fourth landing ship from #Russia's Black Sea Fleet to be sunk since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, according to the U.K. Defense Ministry. »
"In Dnipro, we visited an apartment building where at least 64 people had died in an earlier #Russian missile strike. Eerily enough, we could still see clothes hanging in a top-floor closet — visible because the entire front wall of the building was gone. Other Russian missiles have struck #hospitals, #schools & shopping malls in the area. These are targets of no military value whose destruction amounts to #crimes against humanity" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/12/ukraine-united-states-aid/
"Ukraine’s unheralded success in the battle for the #BlackSea — employing sea drones and missiles to drive back the #Russian fleet — has reopened that vital shipping route... that region’s 3 ports are back to almost prewar levels of exports. The National Bank of Ukraine has forecast a 3.6% economic growth this year, but those projections will be dashed if #Ukraine can’t safeguard its major population centers from Russian airstrikes." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/12/ukraine-united-states-aid/
♲ @mlansbury@despora.de:> ## First ship with humanitarian wheat shipment in 2024 leaves Ukraine
The Sky Gate bulk carrier is shipping 25,000 metric tons of wheat to #Nigeria.
The vessel is moving through the temporary #BlackSea corridor. The #shipping route was opened in August 2023, weeks after Russia's unilateral termination of the Black Sea grain deal threatened Ukraine's ability to ship out its grain.
A US official confirms to my VOA News colleague Carla Babb that the US was involved in an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq that hit "a high-value individual target."
Drone attacks by the Security Service of Ukraine reduced the export of oil products from Russia
Successful drone attacks by the Security Service of Ukraine on large oil refining enterprises reduced Russian exports of petroleum products by almost a third.