The Ukrainian State Hydrographic Service declared on Saturday the state of a “war risk area” in the internal and external waters of the ports of Anapa, Novorossiysk, Gelendzhik, Tuapse, Sochi, and Taman. According to the Ukrainian Coastal Notice 118, with this measure, these ports are considered to be in a war zone. The decision was taken for an indefinite period of time. The news comes after the Russian oil tanker SIG was attacked early in the morning in the Kerch Strait. According to press reports, a naval drone of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) allegedly carried out the strike.
Russia launches massive assault on Ukraine, says Ukraine attacked Donetsk
Aug 6 (Reuters) – Russia launched a multi-wave overnight attack on Ukraine with 70 air-assault weapons including cruise and hypersonic missiles as well as Iranian-made drones, Kyiv’s Air Force said on Sunday, and at least 10 missiles appear to got through air defences. Local media said a worker at a grain silo had been wounded in the overnight attack, which appeared to be focused on an area of western Ukraine, far from the front line. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said people had been killed and wounded in an earlier hit to a blood transfusion centre in the town of Kupiansk, a railway hub fewer than 10 miles from the front in the eastern Kharkiv region. Rescue workers were extinguishing a fire at the scene, he said on Saturday evening, describing the strike as a “war crime.” He did not say how many casualties there were. Russia denies deliberately targeting civilians in a full-scale invasion that has killed thousands of people, uprooted millions and destroyed cities. NN: As you can see these attacks represent a serious escalation in Putin’s war. The world is in denial. Soon this war will spread to NATO countries and then its Rock and Roll time.