Fire erupted at Rosneft PJSC’s largest oil refinery after a drone strike, as Ukraine unleashed fresh attacks on Russia that President Vladimir Putin claimed were part of attempts to disrupt this week’s presidential election. “The Ryazan refinery was hit by a drone. The impact started a fire,” Ryazan regional Governor Pavel Malkov said Wednesday on … Read more
Ukraine has exported 13 million tons of products through a shipping corridor in the Black Sea it established after Russia pulled out of a deal guaranteeing safe movement of crop vessels. Ports accepted 430 vessels for loading since the shipping channel was created in August, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said in a post on … Read more
Russia has based its Black Sea fleet in Crimea for 240 years. Now President Vladimir Putin is at risk of losing the flagship naval hub as Ukraine steps up attacks in the occupied peninsula. The assaults have forced Russia to move its ships further from harm’s way, almost a decade after Putin annexed Crimea with … Read more
The Russian Navy conducted a live-fire “exercise” in the northwest Black Sea, Moscow’s Defense Ministry said on Friday, days after the Kremlin said it would consider ships traveling to Ukraine via the waterway as potential military targets. The Black Sea Fleet “conducted live firing of anti-ship cruise missiles at the target ship in the combat … Read more