Ukraine’s first lady
A Russian warship has been damaged in a drone attack on a Black Sea port which serves as a major hub for Moscow’s exports, a Ukrainian intelligence source has claimed.
While Russia’s regional governor in Novorossiysk – near Crimea – insisted no damage was inflicted, the source told Reuters that the Olenegorsky Gornyak warship “received a serious breach and currently cannot conduct its combat missions”.
A source also told the Ukrainian Interfax news agency that the security service drone was “saturated with 450 kilograms of TNT” as it attacked the ship manned by 100 crew members, in what marks the first attack on a major Russian commercial port since the war began last February.
Meanwhile, Poland’s prime minister warned that fighters from Russia’s “extremely dangerous” private Wagner mercenary force are being moved close to Nato’s eastern flank to “destabilise” the military alliance, as Warsaw scrambled troops to the frontier.
It comes after Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, Uissued an emotional plea for the world not to lose interest in the fight against Russia, in a rare interview with Independent TV.
