Ukraine-Russia war latest: Drones attack Russian fleet in Crimea port

Ukrainian servicemen fire with a D-30 howitzer at Russian positions near Bakhmut – AFP

The Russian navy “repelled” a drone attack on the port of Sevastopol in Moscow-annexed Crimea early on Wednesday, the Kremlin-backed governor of the city has claimed.

The peninsula, seized by Russia in 2014, is home to Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet and has been hit by a series of drone attacks since the Kremlin’s offensive in Ukraine began.

“In total, three objects have been destroyed,” the Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev said on Telegram.

He said sailors had shot at the drones with “small arms” and that “air defence was also working.”

The drone attack came less than a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Crimea and a day after Ukraine said Russian cruise missiles were destroyed in a blast in Crimea, but denied responsibility for the incident.

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08:00 AM

School badly damaged in deadly Russian drone attack

The drone attack that killed three people in the Kyiv region hit a high school about 50 miles south of the capital, a source in Ukraine’s emergency services has said.

The attack “partially destroyed” two floors of two student residences and a building that is used for studying, the source said.

A fire affecting more than 3,200 square feet of the school was extinguished shortly before 7 am local time, according to the emergency services.

07:38 AM

Russian drone attack kills three in Kyiv region

Three people were killed and seven others wounded in a Russian drone attack overnight in the Kyiv region, authorities said.

“A civilian site was damaged as a result of the night drone attack in the Kyiv region,” which caused a fire, the regional military administration said on Telegram without giving further details, including about the location of the strike.

07:33 AM

Russia ‘likely losing momentum in Bakhmut’

British military intelligence believes the Russian assault on the town of Bakhmut is likely losing the limited momentum it had obtained.

This could be happening because “some Russian MoD units have been reallocated to other sectors”, the Ministry of Defence tweeted in a regular bulletin.

Ukrainian forces on Tuesday had repelled Russian attempts to advance into the centre of the small eastern city of Bakhmut.