Ukraine warfare briefing: Russian oil rig hit in Caspian Sea over 700km from Ukraine

[ad_1] Ukrainian drones hit an oil rig at Russia’s Filanovsky area within the Caspian Sea – greater than 700km (435 miles) from Ukraine’s nearest border , in addition to the army patrol ship Okhotnik and different services, Ukraine’s army normal workers stated in an announcement on Saturday. It stated the ship was patrolling close to the platform. The extent of the injury was being assessed. The assault continues Kyiv’s current marketing campaign of strikes on Russia-linked maritime targets removed from Ukrainian territory .

Ukrainian drones struck a radar system within the Krasnosilske space of Crimea , which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Ukraine’s SBU safety service claimed two Russian fighter jets had been additionally destroyed at an airfield in occupied Crimea.

Since Thursday, Russian forces have a minimum of 5 occasions hit a bridge on the Dniester River close to the village of Mayaky , south-west of Pivdennyi in Ukraine’s Odesa area, in keeping with the deputy prime minister Oleksiy Kuleba. The bridge, which connects components of the area divided by the river and sea inlets, is the principal transport route westward to frame crossings with Moldova , and isn't operational now. The route accounted for about 40% of gas provides to Ukraine , Kuleba stated. Ukrainian authorities have arrange a pontoon bridge and re-routed logistics via different areas, securing civilian and freight logistics.

The dying toll rose to eight from a Russian strike on Pivdennyi port . Geneva-based vegetable oil producer Allseeds stated three tanks storing sunflower oil on the web site had been set ablaze in Pivdennyi, and considered one of its employees was killed whereas two had been injured .

The Ukrainian army stated its forces on Saturday fought again greater than 60 assaults on Pokrovsk , which is below heavy Russian siege. Throughout the fight zones in Ukraine, “the Russian invaders carried out 42 airstrikes, dropping 101 guided bombs. As well as, they used 1,684 kamikaze drones and carried out 2,467 assaults on our army positions and settlements.” Within the Kharkiv area metropolis of Izium, two individuals had been killed by guided bomb strikes , stated the state emergency service.

Russia reported Ukrainian drone assaults on its Belgorod area in addition to an assault on services within the Kursk area that left about 5,000 individuals with out electrical energy.

The White Home supplied to chair face-to-face talks between officers of the US, Russia and Ukraine, because the Trump administration continued to solid about for a peace deal . “America is now proposing a trilateral assembly with nationwide safety advisers – America, Ukraine, Russia,” stated Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukraine would again the proposal, he stated, if it facilitated extra exchanges of prisoners and paved the way in which for conferences of nationwide leaders.

Zelenskyy stated Ukraine stood for proposals that would go away the frontline the place it's with out Ukraine having to surrender territory it nonetheless controls within the industrial area of Donbas in jap Ukraine. “For me, the honest model is we stand the place we are actually standing ,” he stated. US negotiators met Russian officers in Florida on Saturday, following on from US talks on Friday with Ukrainian and European officers. It was prompt the talks would proceed on Sunday.