Russia On Sunday, the festival honouring the Navy by citing security concerns as it continues its drone attacks in Ukraine are scaled down.
Russian authorities have cancelled a parade of warships in St. Petersburg, the Kaliningrad region of the Baltic Sea, and in Vladivostok’s Far Eastern Port, which is usually held to commemorate the annual Navy Day celebration.
Asked about the reason for cancelling the parade in St. Petersburg President Vladimir Putin Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov arrived in his hometown city to visit the Navy headquarters and told reporters “It’s more relevant to the overall situation, security reasons, and more than anything.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense said the air defense defeated 99 Ukrainian drones in several regions overnight. He said that later that day, another 51 drones had been shot down near St. Petersburg. According to the local government, a man was killed and three other people were injured by drone fragments in the area around St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport suspended dozens of flights early on Sunday due to the threat of drones.
On a trip to St. Petersburg, President Putin visited the historic Admiralty Building and received a report on the four-day naval operation that concluded on Sunday. The July storm practice included 150 warships from the Balticus into the Pacific Ocean.
Putin vowed to build more warships and strengthen naval training, adding that “the naval strike and combat capabilities will qualitatively rise to new levels.”
He also visited Admiral Grigorovich Frigate of the Baltic Sea Fleet at Kronstadt Naval Base just west of St. Petersburg, and called out the crew to dodge Ukrainian drone attacks in the area.
Shrinking the scale of Navy Day celebrations reflects Moscow’s concerns over Ukraine’s drone attacks nationwide.
In a series of strikes early in the fourth year of the war, Ukraine sank several Russian warships in the Black Sea, crippling Moscow’s naval capabilities and forced its fleet to redeploy Novorosk from Russia-occupied Crimea.
And with the bold attack code name of June 1st “Spider Web”Ukraine used drones to smash several Russian air force bases that host long-range bombers across Russia from the Arctic Kora Peninsula to Siberia.
The raids destroyed or damaged many of the bombers used to launch an air attack on Ukraine, raising great morale in Kiev as Kiev’s unstoppable gun attacks were facing Russian attacks along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) frontline.
Russia continued to abuse Ukraine on Sunday with drone and missile strikes.
In Smee in the northeastern part of Ukraine, a drone attack damaged civil infrastructure objects, management buildings and non-residential facilities, causing three people to be injured. Elsewhere in the area, two men died after being blown up into a land mine, while another woman was injured in a drone attack on another community in the area, the area’s military regime said.
French President Emmanuel Macron called with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy On Sunday, he reaffirmed France’s support for Kiev with X and vowed to put pressure on Moscow to “consent to agree to a ceasefire that opens a way for a speech that leads to solid and lasting peace with full European involvement.”
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