Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces had made air and artillery strikes on Klishchiivka and surrounding towns, knocking out Ukrainian vehicles and equipment.Ukrainian military officials said that Kyiv was persistently working to retake land near the shattered eastern city of Bakhmut while Russian forces were pouring in additional troops in a bid to stop Kyiv's advances.A court at his IK-6 penal colony in Melekhovo, about 230 kilometers east of Moscow, on Friday brought to a close his trial on six charges, including inciting and financing extremist activity and creating an extremist organisation. Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny had an extra 19 years in a maximum security penal colony added to his jail term on Friday in a criminal case that he said was designed to cow the Russian people into political submission.Talks starting in Saudi Arabia this weekend to find a peaceful settlement to end the conflict in Ukraine will be difficult, but Kyiv is counting on persuading more countries to back its peace formula, said Andriy Yermak, head of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office.The port, which handles two percent of the world's oil supply and also exports grain, temporarily halted civilian ship movement before resuming normal operations, according to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. A Russian warship was seriously damaged in a Ukrainian naval drone attack on a Black Sea navy base at Novorossiysk, the first time Kyiv has projected its power so far from the country's shores.Vasyl Malyuk, head of Ukraine's SBU security service, did not directly say that Ukraine had attacked the Russian tanker but said that any incident with ships or the Crimean bridge was "an absolutely logical and efficient step towards the enemy.".
Russian media said the SIG vessel, approaching the Kerch Strait linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, was hit by Ukrainian drones. A sea drone attack damaged a Russian tanker near the strategic bridge linking Russia to the peninsula of Crimea, Russian authorities said on Saturday.
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