President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi continues to change his immediate environment. The Kyiv leader fired several advisers, including one with whom he had worked for five years and who held a high position in his administration. Ukraine’s navy says the “most valuable” ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean peninsula, illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014, have been redeployed after a series of strikes by Ukrainian forces.

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08:38 The Russian military withdrew almost all of its main ships from ports on the Crimean peninsula after successful Ukrainian strikes on the Black Sea Fleet, Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk said on Saturday, The Kyiv Independent reported.

In recent months, Ukraine has announced strikes on several Russian ships, prompting the Navy to redeploy them to safer waters.

Russia has now withdrawn all its main ships, except for the missile carrier “Zyklon”, Pletenchuk said.

According to him, “Zyklon” “hasn’t launched a missile yet.”

Russia began redeploying its Black Sea fleet to Novorossiysk last year after a series of strikes by Ukraine, including a missile attack on its headquarters in Sevastopol on September 22.

The Center for Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (StratCom) recently reported that as of early February 2024, 33 percent of the warships of the Black Sea Fleet were “decommissioned,” including 24 ships and one submarine.