Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine early Monday, including in Kyivas Russia retaliated against a weekend drone strike by Ukrainian forces on a fuel depot in Kremlin-occupied Crimea. No casualties were recorded in an assault on the capital lasting several hours, according to local authoritieswith the missiles and drones destroyed in the airspace above the city. Ukraine’s armed forces said in an operational update early Monday that 15 of the 18 missiles launched by Russia had been destroyed.
Ukrainian officials say Saturday’s attack on the depot in Sevastopol — home to the Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet — was part of the buildup to a long-awaited counteroffensive by Kyiv’s forces to retake territory seized by Moscow. Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s southern command, told local television Sunday that undermining Russia’s logistics helps prepare for the “broad full-scale offensive that everyone expects.”
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
The rise and violent demise of pro-Russian war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky: The recent killing of a convicted criminal turned popular pro-Russian blogger in an explosion in St. Petersburg underscored the role of a new cadre of propagandists in the vanguard of the Kremlin’s info wars, reports The Post’s Francesca Ebel.
Before his death, Tatarsky had become so well known that he received an invitation to the Kremlin when President Vladimir Putin announced his illegal plans last year to annex four regions in southeastern Ukraine. In a live stream from the September event, he proclaimed: “We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will rob everyone we have to.”
