Ukraine managed to attack the port of Feodosiya in the east of the Crimean peninsula, effectively hitting the huge amphibious ship of the “Ropucha” type “Novocherkask”. The Ukrainian attack came after the country celebrated Christmas for the first time on December 25 instead of January 7 according to the old rite along with Russia, for the first time since 1917, a symbolic decision by which Volodymyr Zelensky distanced himself from the country. in the war with Moscow.

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08:00On the night of Monday to Tuesday, the Ukrainian troops managed to hit the “Ropucha” class landing ship “Novocherkask”, which was stuck in the east of Crimea, in the port of Feodosia. It is reported that the strike was carried out by the Ukrainian Air Force, but it is currently unknown which aircraft or weapons were used.

The Ukrainian Air Force said on Tuesday it had destroyed a Russian navy ship in the Black Sea suspected of carrying Iranian drones used by Moscow in its conflict with Kiev, AFP reported.

The moment of the explosion in the port of Feodosia, located in the east of the Crimean Peninsula, was captured on video and posted on social networks.

Monday results:

• Russian troops have gained full control over the town of Maryinka in eastern Ukraine, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday, informing President Vladimir Putin.
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• Imprisoned Kremlin critic Oleksiy Navalny has been placed in a correctional facility near Arcitc Circle, his press secretary Kira Yarmysh confirmed.
• Russia launched 31 drones and two missiles over Ukraine on Christmas Eve, mostly in the south of the country, with air defenses destroying 28 drones and both missiles, the Ukrainian military said Monday.
• On Monday, Russia accused Western countries of stoking tensions in Serbia, a country close to Moscow that has been rocked by protests over alleged fraud in the Dec. 17 election.
• Russia said on Monday that emergency workers had put out a fire on a Soviet-era nuclear cargo ship, and the state-owned company that operates the vessel said there were no casualties or a threat to the safety of the reactor.
• Members of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union signed a free trade agreement with Iran.
• Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will pay a two-day visit to Russia after skipping a summit in Kyrgyzstan attended by Putin in October.
• Ukrainian officials reported that on Sunday, five civilians were killed as a result of Russia’s attack on the Kherson region in southern Ukraine.
• A Russian propagandist who called for the burning of Ukrainian children was poisoned. “I felt sick, then I passed out”

23:18After Ukraine reportedly shot down five Russian jets in the week before Christmas, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that every Russian pilot must “make a clear choice” whether to continue fighting in the war because Ukraine’s air defenses ” will not only become stronger.” .”

A Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile system shot down a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber near the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol in the Donetsk region, Air Force Commander Mykola Oleschuk said on Sunday.

The Air Force also confirmed the downing of a Russian Su-30 fighter jet over the Black Sea on the same day.

Three more Su-34 bombers were shot down on the southern front, Air Force Commander Mykola Oleschuk said on Friday.

“Each Russian pilot must make a clear choice whether to continue participating in this war,” Zelenskyy said in his evening speech.

“Our air defense will become more and more powerful, especially when we receive additional systems, which have already been agreed, and the F-16 aircraft,” the Kyiv leader said.

10:08 pmEx-presenter of Russia Today Anton Krasovsky was hospitalized after he became ill, the propagandist wrote in his Telegram channel. Later, the Ukrainian publication Hromadske reported on his poisoning with reference to anonymous sources in the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, which is headed by Kyrylo Budanov, The Kyiv Independent notes.

19:21 The Ukrainian military denies that Russia captured Maryinka.

The Ukrainian military on Monday denied Russia’s claims that its troops captured the regional center of Marinka in eastern Ukraine, as previously stated by Russian Defense Minister Serhii Shoigu.

“It is incorrect to talk about the capture of Maryinka,” Oleksandr Stupun, the spokesman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, told Ukrainian National Television.

“Our forces are inside the city,” he said.