Celebrations interrupted in Sevastopol. The festivities of Russian Fleet Day “have been canceled for security reasons”, announced the governor of this port city of annexed Crimea, Sunday, July 31, after a drone attack targeting the staff of the Russian Black Sea Fleet left five injured. This unprecedented use of such a device since the beginning of the war in Ukraine was attributed to “Ukrainian nationalists”, while a naval parade is to be overseen by Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. Follow our live.
kyiv calls to evacuate part of Donbass. Residents of the Donetsk region were called to evacuate on Saturday by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to escape the “Russian Terror” and the bombardments on this territory in the east of the country, largely under the control of Moscow.
New bombardments in Mykolaiv. Last night the city of Mykolaiv was heavily hit by shelling, “probably the strongest ever”according to its mayor. “Powerful explosions were heard between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. Residential buildings were damaged. Several fires broke out at the affected sites”according to him.
An allegedly ‘stolen’ grain ship seized in Lebanon. A Lebanese prosecutor on Saturday ordered the seizure of a ship flying the Syrian flag which docked in a port in the north of the country. It carries a cargo of Ukrainian grain “stolen”according to the kyiv embassy in Beirut, which had arrested the Lebanese authorities.