Moscow’s Ministry of Defense reports that one of its ships suffered “minor damage” when Kiev and the Kremlin blame each other for an explosion in Zaporizhzhya
Russian authorities on Saturday accused Ukraine and the United Kingdom of a drone attack on their Black Sea fleet in the Crimean port of Sevastopol. “The preparation of this terrorist act and the training of the military personnel of the 73rd Ukrainian Special Center for Maritime Operations was carried out by British specialists,” the Moscow Ministry of Defense said on Telegram, adding that one of its ships, the ” Ivan Golubets’, registered “minor damage”.
The pro-Russian governor of the city of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvojayev, told the TASS agency that this attack on the facilities of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea in Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Russia, is the “most massive in history.” been”. “. history of the conflict» in Ukraine. Russia, for its part, pointed out that the ships targeted by the attack were involved in a UN brokered deal to allow the export of Ukrainian grain.
The British Ministry of Defense has dismissed allegations by Moscow that it was involved in Saturday’s attack, as well as the explosions that caused leaks in the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September. “To divert attention from its disastrous approach to the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry is resorting to spreading false claims of epic proportions,” he said on Twitter.
At the same time, the authorities of Moscow and Kiev on Saturday denounced a major explosion that has taken place in the city of Zaporizhzhya in recent hours, which, according to the government of Volodímir Zelensky, would have caused the destruction of an industrial warehouse, with no record of victims. Russia and Ukraine often blame each other for these bombings of the city, as well as of the nuclear power plant of the same name, which is located on the other bank of the Dnieper River, in the city of Energodar.
The head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Denís Pushilin, has also announced an exchange of 50 POWs with Ukraine, following the trend noted in recent months. “Today (before this Saturday) there will be another ’50 for 50′ exchange,” Pushilin, the head of a Russian-annexed Ukrainian region whose integration with Moscow has not been announced in a subsequent referendum. by the international community.
Pushilin has explained in his Telegram account that the detainees are mainly members of the armed forces of both countries. The previous exchange between the two countries took place on October 17, when the sides exchanged 110 soldiers per side.
Source: La Verdad
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