LIVE War in Ukraine – day 762: Ukrainian warship captured by the Russians, hit with a Neptune missile / “difficult” situation for Kiev’s troops in Donbas / Kamikaze drones, shot down over some Ukrainian regions

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the attack on the Moscow concert hall was “part of the Kiev regime’s attacks against Russia”, although he acknowledged that the attack was carried out by Islamic State. “We are interested in who benefits from of this,” Putin said, adding that the attack was an “act of intimidation.” On the other hand, on the front, Kiev’s forces are in a “difficult” situation near the city of Ceasiv And in Donetsk, where Russia is concentrating its offensive, the Ukrainian army announced.

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10:05 a.mUkrainian warship captured by the Russians, hit by a Neptune missile

Ukraine has claimed yet another successful strike on the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Ukrainian navy spokesman Dmitro Pletenchuk said the landing ship Konstantin Olshansky, which Russia captured from Ukraine in 2014, was hit by a Neptun missile, according to Reuters and The Kyiv Independent.

“Currently, this ship is not capable of combat,” Pletenchuk said.

09:50Vladimir Solovyov, one of Russia’s best-known TV presenters, has been invited by residents of Belgorod to move his studio to the recently bombed region, after the propagandist said the population was being “hysterical” for nothing because of the increasingly frequent strikes , according to Meduza.

09:10Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had detained members of an organized crime group, which included officials from the country’s Russian Ministry of Economy, reports the Interfax news agency, reported by Reuters.

08:11Ukrainian defense systems shot down all 12 attack drones launched by Russia overnight, the Kyiv Air Force announced in a statement on Tuesday, cited by Reuters.

Iranian-made drones were destroyed over the Nikolaev (south) and Kharkiv (east) regions.

07:43Any international summit for peace in Ukraine from which Russia will be excluded is simply “absurd” and will fail, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Tuesday, Reuters notes.

07:14What is Russia aiming for by building a second nuclear power plant in Turkey?

Brief recap of recent events:

• Ukrainian forces are in a “difficult” situation near the city of Ceasiv And in the east of the country, where Russia is concentrating its offensive, the Ukrainian army announced on Monday.
• Putin wonders why the attackers from Moscow fled to Ukraine: “Who was waiting for them there?”.
• Russia’s Investigative Committee on Monday requested the preventive arrest for two months in the case of three other people, in addition to the four directly involved in the brutal attack committed on Friday evening in the Crocus City Hall concert hall.
• The wife of the opponent Vladimir Kara-Murza, Evghenia Kara-Murza, declares herself in favor of an exchange of prisoners.
• The White House on Monday rejected the link made by Russia between Ukraine and the terrorist attack that killed 137 people in a concert hall in a suburb of Moscow, writes Reuters.
• The Ukrainian military has published a new video recording of the spectacular explosion of a Russian tank after it suffers a detonation of the ammunition on board. In the present case it is a T-80 tank hit by an FPV drone.
• The European Union has doubled its shell production capacity to one million a year to supply Ukraine, and will double it again to two million annually in 2025.

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