Moscow:

Russia’s defence ministry Mentioned early on Friday that it had thwarted in a single day Ukrainian assaults on a naval base within the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula.

“Tonight, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the usage of two unmanned sea boats, tried an assault on the Novorossiysk naval base of the Russian Armed Forces,” the ministry mentioned on Telegram.

Russian ships destroyed the naval drones, it mentioned.

The Black Sea port of Novorossiysk hosts the terminus of a pipeline that carries most Kazakh oil exports by means of Russia.

The gasoline artery’s operator Caspian Pipeline Consortium mentioned it was persevering with to ship oil to moored tankers on the terminal, Russian state media reported Friday.

However “a short lived ban has been established on the motion of ships within the port”, mentioned the corporate, as quoted by Interfax information company.

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been focused because the starting of Moscow’s navy marketing campaign in Ukraine greater than a yr in the past, however assaults have elevated in latest weeks.

On Tuesday, Russia’s Defence Ministry Mentioned it foiled a Ukrainian drone assault focusing on patrol boats within the Black Sea, the place tensions have been constructing after Moscow exited a deal defending Ukrainian grain exports.

The same assault was repelled every week earlier.

The ministry additionally mentioned Friday it had downed 13 drones over the Crimean peninsula.

There have been no casualties or injury in both assault, the ministry mentioned.

Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, has been focused by Kyiv all through Moscow’s Ukraine offensive however has come underneath extra intense, elevated assaults in latest weeks.

Ukrainian drone assaults on Crimea in July blew up an ammunition depot and broken a strategic and symbolic bridge linking Russia’s mainland to the peninsula.

Kyiv has repeatedly mentioned it plans to take again Crimea, which is a daily goal for its forces.

On Sunday, Russian-installed authorities in Crimea mentioned 25 Ukrainian drones had been destroyed over the peninsula.

Kyiv says Russia, in the meantime, has repeatedly attacked Ukraine’s Odesa area, on the shores of the Black Sea.

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