France’s president Emmanuel Macron has condemned a “cowardly and outrageous” alleged Russian strike which killed two French aid workers in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region.
The strike in the town of Beryslav was followed by an airstrike in the city of Kherson on Friday which local officials said injured two civilians and partially destroyed a three-storey residential building – as Russian drones struck president Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Ukraine claimed to have sunk another warship in Vladimir Putin’s prized Black Sea fleet, in a drone attack near occupied Crimea.
In claims echoed by multiple Russian military bloggers, Ukraine’s military intelligence agency alleged that special forces units carried out several direct hits to the hull of the Ivanovets missile ship as it patrolled near Lake Donuzlav, after which the warship “rolled to the stern and sank”.
The loss, if confirmed, marks the latest problem for the Russian fleet that analysts say has been partially forced to evacuate some of its former positions in Crimea amid mounting vulnerability.
