The footage capturing a massive fireball near the port of Feodosia following a suspected Storm Shadow strike has heightened tensions in the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Kyiv has claimed responsibility for the Christmas attack, which reportedly resulted in significant damage to the Novercherkassk military vessel and casualties among both civilians and military personnel. Eyewitness... 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted that his country’s much-publicized counteroffensive against Russia has failed. In an interview with the Associated Press, Zelensky gave what the media outlet described as a “frank appraisal” of the summer’s counteroffensive that resulted in very limited gains and no significant breakthroughs. Since the beginning of the year,... 

Ukraine recently launched a significant drone assault on the annexed Crimean naval port of Sevastopol, marking one of the most intense attacks in recent months. Surveillance footage captured the moment when a surface kamikaze sea drone approached the city in the early hours of July 16, narrowly missing causing extensive damage. Reports indicated that two drones were involved in the attack, accompanied... 

Leaked blueprints have revealed a bunker hidden deep underneath Vladimir Putin’s £1 billion mansion overlooking the Black Sea. Gelendzhik Palace has its own church, casino, fully-equipped gym, ice hockey rink and ‘entertainment room’ – complete with stripper poles. The sprawling 190,000-square-foot complex is sealed off from the rest of Russia by 17,000 acres of woodland guarded by the FSB... 

An overnight attack destroyed a shipment of Russian cruise missiles on the occupied Crimean Peninsula, Kyiv’s military agency has claimed. Footage posted to social channels showed a large fireball lighting up the sky above the town of Dzhankoi in what was reportedly an attack by drones on a train transporting Russian Kalibr missiles to Vladimir Putin’s fleet in the Black Sea. Ukraine’s... 

Kremlin forces are reported to have found the downed US MQ-9 Reaper drone at a depth of up to 2,953ft in the Black Sea off the major naval port of Sevastopol, according to Russian media. A source close to the Russian defence ministry reportedly told ForPost, a publication in annexed Crimea: ‘An underwater robot has descended to the seabed and detected the MQ-9 Reaper at a depth of about 850-900... 

The $32 million MQ-9 Reaper drone downed in the Black Sea after a run-in with Russian fighter jets on Tuesday is the same type of aircraft used by the CIA to kill Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul in July, 2022. Equipped for long-range surveillance missions, the unmanned spy aircraft is controlled by two pilots on the ground – sometimes as much as 5,000 miles away -can fly for 20 hours,... 

Tens of millions of people face the worst famine in centuries unless Vladimir Putin signs a new deal to allow ships carrying grain safe passage to leave Ukraine, a UN official warned last night. World Food Programme director David Beasley issued a dire warning to the Kremlin amid growing fears that Moscow will reinstate its blockade of Ukrainian ports. There are currently nine Russian warships launching... 

Vladimir Putin has declared martial law in the occupied regions of Ukraine as officials began evacuating civilians from the city of Kherson, with a battle for control of the stronghold now looming. Putin said the order will come into effect from midnight in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions – giving him sweeping powers to curtail the freedoms of civilians, repurpose industries,... 

In reaction to Tehran’s “unfriendly act” of supplying combat drones to Russia, Ukraine said on Friday that it had withdrawn the accreditation of Iran’s ambassador in Kiev and would “seriously reduce” the number of diplomats stationed there. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that providing weapons to Moscow “directly contradicts the position... 

According to Ben Hodges, a former commander of the US Army in Europe, if Moscow decides to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the US might destroy Russia’s Black Sea Fleet stationed in Crimea or its facilities there. Hodges deemed it “extremely improbable” that Russian President Vladimir Putin would command the deployment of nuclear weapons in an interview with the Daily Mail on Wednesday. Putin... 

The humiliating relocation comes as Ukraine steps up is long range strike capabilities in its fightback against Russia. Vladimir Putin has been delivered another blow after some of Russia’s Black Sea fleet submarines were forced to retreat. Russia’s Navy has relocated some of its submarines from the port of Sevastopol in Crimea to Novorossiysk in Krasnodor Krai, southern Russia, according... 

Romania is halfway through the legislative process of approving the Neptun-Deep offshore gas platform in the Black Sea, but it will take years and billions of dollars for production before any measurable difference in the country’s energy balance is achieved, analysts have warned. The Romanian Senate adopted on Wednesday the legislative proposal to amend the Offshore Law, which regulates the oil... 

Ukraine is claiming that it may have destroyed Vladimir Putin’s special ‘parade boat’ which he uses to inspect his naval fleets (Putin pictured on board the Raptor-class patrol vessel in St Petersburg in 2020) Ukraine has destroyed Vladimir Putin’s special ‘parade boat’ which he uses to inspect his naval fleets, its forces have claimed. A white-coloured Raptor-class... 

Ukraine may have shot another Russian warship overnight with an MP saying one of Putin’s state-of-the-art frigates is ‘in trouble’ in the Black Sea. Oleksiy Goncharenko, head of the council of Odesa which houses Ukraine’s largest naval base, identified the vessel on his Telegram channel this morning as the Admiral Makarov – a $500million frigate that was only commissioned...