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☆ Putin scores a resounding win, but what’s next for Russia?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Nathan Hodge | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

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☆ Ukraine's Zelenskiy Slaps Sanctions on 108 People, 37 Russian Groups
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

By Maria Starkova and Elaine MonaghanLVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has sanctioned 37 Russian groups and 108 people including a former prime minister and a former education minister and said he aimed to fight wartime abductions of children from Ukraine and other "Russian terror". Zelenskiy did not associate specific individuals or groups with particular wrongdoings. The decrees showed a range of 10-year penalties against individuals and five-year penalties against non-profit groups including one named in English as the "Russian Children's Foundation." Some of the newly-sanctioned people, which included many with Russian citizenship, had previously been punished with separate or similar penalties. The sanctioned Russian groups included several whose names or websites indicate they work with children.

Persons: Maria Starkova, Elaine Monaghan, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Zelenskiy, Dmytro Tabachnyk, Mykola Azarov, Viktor Yanukovich, Azarov, Sergei Aksyonov, Leonid Pasechnik, Putin, Kvartal Lui, Maria Lvova, Vladimir Putin, Sofia Lvova, Alexander Lukashenko, Zelenskiy's, Franklin Paul Organizations: Reuters, Russian Children's Foundation, Russian, Kyiv, Criminal, Lvova, Yale University, State Department, National Security, Defence Council Locations: Elaine Monaghan LVIV, Ukraine, Russia, Kyiv, Russian, Crimea, Luhansk, Ukrainian, The Hague, Belarus, Putin, Washington

LVIV, Ukraine, Nov 19 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has sanctioned 37 Russian groups and 108 people including a former prime minister and a former education minister and said he aimed to fight wartime abductions of children from Ukraine and other "Russian terror". Zelenskiy did not associate specific individuals or groups with particular wrongdoings. The decrees showed a range of 10-year penalties against individuals and five-year penalties against non-profit groups including one named in English as the "Russian Children's Foundation." Some of the newly-sanctioned people, which included many with Russian citizenship, had previously been punished with separate or similar penalties. The sanctioned Russian groups included several whose names or websites indicate they work with children.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Zelenskiy, Dmytro Tabachnyk, Mykola Azarov, Viktor Yanukovich, Azarov, Sergei Aksyonov, Leonid Pasechnik, Putin, Kvartal Lui, Maria Lvova, Vladimir Putin, Sofia Lvova, Alexander Lukashenko, Zelenskiy's, Elaine Monaghan, Franklin Paul Organizations: Russian Children's Foundation, Russian, Kyiv, Criminal, Lvova, Yale University, State Department, National Security, Defence Council, Franklin Paul Our, Thomson Locations: LVIV, Ukraine, Russia, Kyiv, Russian, Crimea, Luhansk, Ukrainian, The Hague, Belarus, Putin, Washington

LVIV, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Ukraine rained 15 cruise missiles on Russia's shipyard in the Crimean port city of Kerch on Saturday, damaging one ship, Russian defence ministry said, in an attack that could further undermine Moscow's striking capabilities. Moscow has often attacked Ukraine in the course of the 20-month-long war with Kalibr missiles. Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed head of Crimea, said there were no casualties in the Saturday attack on the shipyard in Kerch in Crimea. According to some Ukrainian war monitoring Telegram channels, a small Russian cruise missile carrier the Askold, was damaged in the attack. In September, the Russian defence ministry said that the Askold ship of the Black Sea Fleet was engaged in destroying Ukrainian targets in the waters off Crimea.

Persons: Mykola Oleshchuk, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Sergei Aksyonov, Maria Starkova, Elaine Monaghan, Lidia Kelly, Philippa Fletcher, Ros Russell, Andrew Heavens, Daniel Wallis Organizations: Air Force, Russian Navy, Kalibr, Ukraine's Air Force, Sea Fleet, Reuters, Black, Thomson Locations: LVIV, Ukraine, Crimean, Kerch, Moscow, Russian, Ukrainian, Crimea

☆ Car bomb kills official in Russian-held Ukrainian town, governor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Oct 7 (Reuters) - A party official in the Russian-held town of Nova Kakhovka in Ukraine's Kherson province was killed by a car bomb on Saturday, the provincial governor said. Vladimir Malov, executive secretary of the town branch of Russia's governing United Russia party, died in hospital, Vladimir Saldo said in a post on his Telegram channel. He said it had been a "terrorist attack", meaning one orchestrated by Ukraine. In July, Russia said it had thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to kill Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-backed head of unilaterally annexed Crimea, arresting an agent before he could blow up Aksyonov's car. Reporting by Reuters; writing by Kevin Liffey; editing by Nick MacfieOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Vladimir Malov, Vladimir Saldo, Sergei Aksyonov, Kevin Liffey, Nick Macfie Organizations: United Russia, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Nova, Ukraine's Kherson, Ukraine, Kyiv, Moscow, Russia, Crimea

☆ Ukraine attacks Russian Black Sea navy HQ in Crimea
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/4] A satellite image shows smoke billowing from a Russian Black Sea Navy HQ after a missile strike, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Sevastopol, Crimea, September 22, 2023. Ukraine's military confirmed it had attacked the Russian Black Sea fleet's headquarters, but gave few details. "On September 22 close to 12:00 (0900 GMT) Ukraine's defence forces successfully struck the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea fleet command in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol," it said on the Telegram messaging app. Ukraine has intensified attacks in the Black Sea and Crimea, which was seized and annexed by Russia in 2014, as Ukrainian forces press on with a nearly four-month-old counteroffensive to regain Russian-occupied territory. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's Security Council said there were two options for the future of the Russia's Black Sea fleet - voluntary or forced "self-neutralisation".

Persons: Mikhail Razvozhayev, Razvozhayev, Oleksiy Danilov, Mykhailo Podolyak, Oleg Kryuchkov, Sergei Aksyonov, Philippa Fletcher, Ron Popeski, Grant McCool Organizations: Sea Navy, PBC, Handout, REUTERS Acquire, Russian, Security, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukrainian, Crimean, Russia, Moscow, Bakhchysarai

☆ One killed as Ukraine strikes Black Sea navy HQ with missiles
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Sept 22 (Reuters) - At least one Ukrainian missile struck the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea navy in the Crimean port of Sevastopol on Friday, causing a fire, local governor Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Separately, Russia's defence ministry said one serviceman was killed in the attack, while air defences had downed a total of five missiles. Razvozhayev said that although no further strikes were expected, locals were being urged to avoid the city centre where the navy building is located. Crimea, which Russia seized and annexed from Ukraine in 2014, has been a frequent target of Ukrainian attacks in the course of the 19-month-old war. Russian-installed authorities said air defence downed another missile on Friday near the town of Bakhchysarai.

Persons: Mikhail Razvozhayev, Razvozhayev, Sergei Aksyonov, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: Firefighters, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Ukrainian, Crimean, Sevastopol, Crimea, Russia, Ukraine, Bakhchysarai

☆ Russia says it thwarts Ukrainian rocket attack on Crimean Bridge, downs drones
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Aug 12 (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said on Saturday that Ukraine had tried unsuccessfully to strike the Crimean Bridge across the Kerch Strait with S-200 rockets, but that no damage or casualties had been caused. The 12-mile (19-km) bridge, which links Russian-annexed Crimea to Russia, has come under repeated attack from Ukrainian forces since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. "The Ukrainian missile was detected in a timely manner and was intercepted in the air by Russian air defence systems. Separately, Russian forces destroyed 20 Ukrainian drones launched onto the Crimean Peninsula earlier on Saturday, Russia's Defence Ministry said. It was not immediately clear what was targeted in those reported attacks on the Black Sea peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Persons: Sergei Aksyonov, Vladimir Putin, Lidia Kelly, Felix, Gareth Jones, William Mallard, Helen Popper Our Organizations: Russia's Defence, Ukrainian, Russian, Russia's Defence Ministry, Reuters, Kremlin, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Kerch, Russian, Crimea, Russia, Ukrainian, Moscow

☆ Ukraine strikes Chonhar bridge to Crimea, RIA reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Aug 6 (Reuters) - The Chonhar road bridge linking mainland Ukraine to Crimea was damaged by a Ukrainian missile strike on Sunday, Russia's RIA news agency cited the Moscow-appointed head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, as saying. RIA cited acting Kherson regional governor Vladimir Saldo -- another Moscow appointee -- as saying the strike on the bridge, one of three road links between Crimea and mainland Ukraine, involved an Anglo-French Storm Shadow missile. In June Ukraine struck the same bridge, which lies on a route used by the Russian military to move between Crimea and other parts of Ukraine under its control. It was not clear whether traffic on the bridge had been suspended. In the early hours of Saturday, a Ukrainian sea drone full of explosives damaged a Russian fuel tanker near the Crimean Bridge, the second such attack in 24 hours.

Persons: Sergei Aksyonov, RIA, Vladimir Saldo, Saldo, Alex Richardson, Hugh Lawson Organizations: Storm Shadow, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Crimea, Ukrainian, Moscow, Kherson, Henichesk, Russian, Russia

☆ Russian ammunition depot hit during Ukrainian drone attack in Crimea - official
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 24 (Reuters) - An ammunition depot was hit during a Ukrainian drone attack on Dzhankoi in Crimea early on Monday, with Russian air defence forces shooting down or electronically jamming 11 drones over the area, a Russian-installed official said. It was not immediately clear whether the ammunition depot was directly hit by a drone or if it was damaged by falling drone debris. Ukrainian officials have long said the city and surrounding areas have been turned into Moscow's largest military base in Crimea. On Saturday, Aksyonov said a drone caused an explosion at an ammunition depot in central Crimea, prompting authorities to evacuate nearby people and briefly suspend road traffic on the bridge linking the peninsula to Russia. Ukraine did claim that incident, saying its army had destroyed an oil depot and Russian army warehouses.

Persons: Sergei Aksyonov, Aksyonov, Lidia Kelly, Mark Trevelyan, Simon Cameron, Moore Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: Ukrainian, Dzhankoi, Crimea, Russian, Crimean, Moscow, Ukraine, Russia, Melbourne, London

☆ Drone attack on ammunition depot in Crimea prompts evacuation, bridge closure
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 22 (Reuters) - A drone attack on an ammunition depot in Crimea prompted authorities to evacuate a 5-km (3-mile) radius and briefly suspend road traffic on the bridge linking the peninsula to Russia, the region's Moscow-installed governor said on Saturday. Ukraine said its army had destroyed an oil depot and Russian army warehouses in what it called the "temporarily occupied" district of Oktiabrske in central Crimea. The attack caused an ammunition depot to explode, said Russian-installed governor Sergei Aksyonov, adding there was no reported damage or casualties. Russia seized and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, eight years before launching its full-scale invasion of the country. "This is the route used to feed the war with ammunition and this is being done on a daily basis," he said.

Persons: Sergei Aksyonov, Aksyonov, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Oleg Kryuchkov, Caleb Davis, Mark Trevelyan, Olena Harmash, Ron Popeski, Daniel Wallis Organizations: Health Ministry, Thomson Locations: Crimea, Russia, Moscow, Ukraine, Oktiabrske, Russian

☆ Drone attack in Crimea prompts evacuation, brief bridge closure
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Kerch Bridge that links Crimea to Russia, taken on Oct. 14, 2022. A drone attack on an ammunition depot in Crimea prompted authorities to evacuate everyone in a five-km (3.1-mile) radius and briefly suspend road traffic on the bridge linking the peninsula to Russia, the Moscow-installed regional governor said on Saturday. Sergei Aksyonov said there was an explosion at the depot in Krasnohvardiiske in central Crimea but reported no damage or casualties. Aksyonov blamed it on a Ukrainian drone attack. Russia seized and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, eight years before launching its full-scale invasion of the country.

Persons: Sergei Aksyonov, Aksyonov, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Oleg Kryuchkov Locations: Kerch, Crimea, Russia, Moscow, Krasnohvardiiske, Ukrainian, Kyiv, Ukraine

☆ Fire at military base in Crimea forces evacuation of more than 2,000 people
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 19 (Reuters) - A fire that broke out at the military training grounds in the Kirovske district on the Crimean Peninsula has forced the evacuation of more than 2,000 people and a closure of nearby highway, the Moscow-backed governor of Crimea said on Wednesday. "It is planned to temporarily evacuate residents of four settlements - this is more than 2,000 people," Russian-installed Governor Sergei Aksyonov of Crimea said on the Telegram messaging app. Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesperson for the Odesa military administration in Ukraine posted two videos of a fire in an uninhabited area, saying, "Enemy ammunition depot. Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. Ukraine's military also said that a drone attack at Kyiv was successfully repelled early on Wednesday.

Persons: Sergei Aksyonov, Serhiy Bratchuk, Vladimir Putin, Lidia Kelly, Guy Faulconbridge Organizations: Reuters, Kyiv, Thomson Locations: Kirovske, Crimean, Moscow, Crimea, Ukraine, Russia, Odesa, Melbourne

☆ Russia Attacks Odesa for a Second Night: Ukraine War Live Updates
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Victoria Kim | Marc Santora | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Several waves of missiles and drones were launched at cities across Ukraine overnight, but the assault was particularly concentrated on infrastructure targets in Odesa, according to Ukraine’s Air Force. “It was a hellish night,” Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesman for the Odesa regional military administration, said in a video message posted on social media. At least 30 cruise missiles and 32 attack drones were fired at targets across the country, primarily from the Black Sea, the air force said. Ukraine said the assault on Odesa, the country’s largest port, was Russia resuming its blockade of Ukrainian grain ships passing through the Black Sea. The Kremlin issued threats on Tuesday against Kyiv attempting to continue shipments of food through the Black Sea.

Persons: ” Serhiy Bratchuk, Sergei Aksyonov, Serhii Popko Organizations: Reuters, Ukraine’s Air Force, United Nations, ”, Kyiv Locations: Odesa ., Reuters Russia, Odesa, Black, Moscow, Ukraine, Port, Russian, Crimean, Russia, Crimea, Kerch, ” Russia

☆ Russia strikes Ukraine's Odesa port in 'hellish' attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Nick Starkov | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/3] Children's bicycles are seen among debris in an apartment building damaged during Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near Odesa, Ukraine July 19, 2023. The attack was "very powerful, truly massive," Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesperson for the Odesa military administration, said in a voice message on his Telegram channel on Wednesday. Most of Ukraine was under air raid alerts on and off starting soon after midnight on Wednesday, with Russia striking other places, including a drone attack on Kyiv. It was a much lower success rate than Ukraine usually reports for countering Russian air attacks. Telegram channels linked to Russian security services and Ukrainian media said an ammunition depot was on fire at the base after a Ukrainian overnight air attack.

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The Kerch Strait Bridge that links the Crimean Peninsula to mainland Russia, in March. Russian officials blamed Ukraine for the attack on the Kerch Strait Bridge. Ukrainian officials offered no comment on the incident. Video and photographs verified by The Times showed damage to both sides of the road bridge, with the most significant being along a span of the bridge heading into Russia. The attack came as Ukrainian forces were engaged in an ambitious and grinding counteroffensive aimed at driving Russian forces from southern Ukraine.

Persons: Yusov, ”, Vladimir Rogov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Sergei Aksyonov, —, Vyacheslav Gladkov, Aksyonov, Mazaeva, Ivan Nechepurenko Organizations: The Times, Ministry, Transport, Russian Federation, Ukrainian, Crimean Locations: Kerch, Crimean, Russia, Ukraine, Russian, Moscow, Crimea, Sevastopol, Belgorod

☆ What We Know About the Attack on the Crimean Bridge
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Matthew Mpoke Bigg | More About Matthew Mpoke Bigg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For the second time in less than a year, explosives have damaged the bridge that links Russia and Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow illegally annexed in 2014. The 12-mile-long bridge, which includes a road and rail line running side by side, is a heavily guarded piece of infrastructure that holds major importance for Russia. Initial reports suggested the blasts on Monday were not as severe as in last October, when an explosion caused part of the road bridge to collapse into the water. Before dawn on Monday, the top Russian-installed official in Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, announced on the Telegram messaging app that traffic had been stopped on the Kerch Strait Bridge because of an emergency. Russia’s antiterrorism committee later said that the bridge had been hit by two maritime drones in what appeared to be separate explosions.

Persons: Sergei Aksyonov, Russia’s Organizations: Russia Locations: Russia, Crimea, Ukrainian, Moscow, Russian, Kerch

☆ Traffic stopped on Crimean Bridge, reports of blasts
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Workers restoring damaged parts of the Kerch Bridge that links Crimea to Russia, which was hit by a blast on October 8, 2022. Traffic was stopped on the Russian-built Crimean Bridge due to "an emergency" situation, Russia-installed officials said on Monday, while Ukrainian media reported blasts on the bridge. Sergei Aksyonov, a Russian-installed governor, said the emergency occurred on the 145th pillar of the bridge which links the Crimean peninsula to the Russian region of Krasnodar. The RBC-Ukraine news agency reported that explosions were heard on the bridge. Crimea was annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014, but is internationally recognized as part of Ukraine.

Persons: Sergei Aksyonov, Wagner Organizations: RBC, Reuters Locations: Kerch, Crimea, Russia, Russian, Krasnodar, Ukraine, Russia's

☆ Crimea Bridge: why is it important and what happened to it
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A cargo ship sails next to the Crimea bridge in the Kerch Strait, Crimea, March 14, 2023. The RBC-Ukraine news agency reported that explosions were heard on the bridge, with Russian military bloggers reporting two strikes. The bridge is a crucial supply route for Russian forces in Ukraine. In October, the bridge was damaged in a powerful blast, with Russian officials saying the explosion was caused by a truck that blew up while crossing the bridge, killing three people. CRIMEA AND RUSSIA LINKThe 19-km (12-mile) Crimea Bridge over the Kerch Strait is the only direct link between the transport network of Russia and the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in2014.

Persons: Alexey Pavlishak, Sergei Aksyonov, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Putin, Arkady Rotenberg, Lidia Kelly, Michael Perry Organizations: REUTERS, RBC, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Crimea, Kerch, Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Kyiv, CRIMEA, RUSSIA, Moscow, Sevastopol, Ukraine's Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Melbourne

☆ Russia says it shoots down missiles over Crimea, Rostov region
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

July 9 (Reuters) - Russian air defence systems shot down two missiles on Sunday, Russian officials said, one over the annexed Crimean peninsula and another over Russia's southern Rostov region that also borders Ukraine. A cruise missile was shot down near the city of Kerch on the Crimean peninsula, without inflicting any damage or casualties, Russia-installed Governor Sergei Aksyonov wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Crimea was annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014, but is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine. Local officials said traffic movement on the Crimean Bridge that links the peninsula to the Russian mainland was restored after an apparent suspension. In another incident, air defence shot down a Ukrainian missile in Russia's Rostov region, Governor Vasily Golubev said on Telegram.

Persons: Sergei Aksyonov, Vasily Golubev, Golubev, Alexander Marrow, William Maclean Organizations: Kyiv, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Crimean, Rostov, Ukraine, Kerch, Russia, Crimea, Russian, Ukrainian, Russia's Rostov, Moscow

☆ Russia says it thwarted Ukrainian plot to kill Moscow-backed head of Crimea
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Andrew Osborn | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 3 (Reuters) - Russia's FSB security service said on Monday it had thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to assassinate Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-backed head of Crimea, arresting an agent before he could blow up Aksyonov's car. Russian media have reported that security has been stepped up in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, and that additional checks are being made on crossings from Russia's southern Krasnodar region into Crimea. Footage broadcast on state TV showed masked FSB operatives detaining a man in a tracksuit as he walked into a wooded area. The FSB did not name the man, who it said was in his mid-30s and had entered Crimea in June. Aksyonov thanked the FSB and said he was sure the individuals who ordered the assassination would be found and punished.

Persons: Sergei Aksyonov, Ukraine's, Aksyonov, Andrew Osborn, Mark Trevelyan, Kevin Liffey Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Crimea, Ukraine, Russia, Russia's, Krasnodar, Ukrainian, Simferopol

☆ Russia pulls back from brink of crisis after deal reached to end Wagner insurrection
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

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☆ Russia-Ukraine War Updates: Bridge to Occupied Crimea Is Damaged
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Cassandra Vinograd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Image The damaged Chonhar bridge connecting Russian-held parts of Ukraine’s Kherson region to the Crimean peninsula, on Thursday. Sergei Aksyonov, the Kremlin-installed leader of Crimea, said that there were no casualties from the overnight attack on the Chonhar bridge that connects the peninsula to the Kherson region of southern Ukraine. The Russia-backed governor of occupied Kherson, Vladimir Saldo, was direct in blaming Ukraine. Videos and photographs verified by The New York Times show damage to both bridges that run across the Chonhar Strait between Crimea and the Kherson region. The main road bridge has a hole, and the surface of the smaller bridge that runs alongside it also appears damaged.

Persons: Vladimir Saldo, Sergei Aksyonov, ”, Haley Willis Organizations: ., Reuters, The New York Times Locations: Russian, Ukraine’s Kherson, Kherson, Reuters Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Crimean, Russia, Britain, Chonhar

☆ Russia says it downed three Ukrainian drones in Moscow region
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 21 (Reuters) - Russian air defences downed three drones in the Moscow region on Wednesday, the Defence Ministry said, in what it called an attempted Ukrainian attack. The ministry said Russian defences had used electronic jamming to cause the drones to lose control and crash, without causing any casualties or damage. Reuters could not independently verify details of the incident or determine who had launched the drones. Moscow regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said two of the drones in Wednesday's incident were intercepted as they approached military warehouses. Self-styled partisan groups have reported frequent attacks on Russian rail infrastructure, sometimes resulting in derailments, during the 16 months since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Persons: Andrei Vorobyov, Sergei Aksyonov, Lidia Kelly, Felix Light, Mark Trevelyan, Andrew Osborn, Peter Graff Organizations: Defence Ministry, TASS, Taman Division, Russia's, Forces, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Ukrainian, Ukraine, Kalininets, Russian, Crimea, Feodosia, derailments, Russia

☆ Canal that supplies Crimea getting far less water after Ukraine dam blast, warns Kremlin
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Andrew Osborn | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The reservoir feeds the Soviet-era North Crimean Canal - a channel which has traditionally supplied 85% of Crimea's water. Russia had taken measures to alleviate Crimea's water supply problem before access to the canal was restored last year, meaning there was now a certain "margin of safety" however, he said. Mikhail Razvozhaev, the Russian-installed governor of the Crimean city of Sevastopol, the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, played down any immediate threat to water supplies. "Water supply to the city will not be affected by damage to the Kakhovskaya hydro-electric power plant in any way. The city uses its own reservoir, water reserves are at a maximum, and there are also reserve sources of water supply," he said on Telegram.

Persons: Dmitry Peskov, Sergei Aksyonov, Aksyonov, Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Razvozhaev, Vladimir Konstantinov, Andrew Osborn, William Maclean Organizations: Kremlin, Russian, Thomson Locations: Crimea, Nova Kakhovka, Russia, Ukraine, Russian, Kyiv, Moscow, Dnipro, Salt, U.S ., Utah, Crimean, Sevastopol

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