Russia annexed Crimea, in eastern Ukraine, in 2014.
Ukraine’s president has claimed that recent Ukrainian attacks have denied the Russian fleet safe bases and secure maritime corridors in the western part of the Black Sea, as Kyiv’s troops look to squeeze the Kremlin’s occupying forces out of the Crimean Peninsula.
“The Russian fleet is no longer capable of operating in the western part of the Black Sea and is gradually retreating from Crimea,” Volodymyr Zelensky claimed, without providing evidence. “This is a historic achievement.” The Russian Defence Ministry said its forces hit three Ukrainian sea drones in the Black Sea early Tuesday.In February last year, it launched a full-scale invasion that also aims to annex the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia.
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