In the early hours of this morning, Ukraine launched a sea drone strike on a Russian port in the southern city of Novorossiysk.

'The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office sent an indictment to the court against a Russian serviceman for violating the laws and customs of war, combined with a completed attempt to intentionally kill two civilians,' it said on Telegram.

The office said the soldier, who is the commander of the motorised rifle company of the Russian armed forces, was heard calling his wife, laughing and telling her he had killed a man after the incident. He eventually reached a nearby military base on his own, it added. The man lay unconscious for more than 30 hours.'

'They dumped his body in a trench on the side of the road. 'At this time, the occupiers approached the shot car and thought that the man had died,' it said The woman spotted the helicopter and followed it in an attempt to reach the Kyiv's forces for help, it added. The man, who has not been named, is accused of opening fire on a couple from Donetsk as they drove to Bakhmut to reach their elderly parents.Īt the time, the Ukrainian military was conducting aerial reconnaissance of the area and recorded the shooting. And the UN nuclear watchdog has concluded that no explosives are on the roof of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, contradicting President Zelenskyy's earlier claim that Russia may have placed mines there.Ī Russian commander will be tried in Ukraine for shooting civilians in a car while they were travelling to rescue their parents, according to Kyiv's prosecutor general's office.Moscow and Beijing have been carrying out navy exercises in the Bering Sea to practice destroying submarines.Ukraine's security service claimed Russia is preparing a 'false flag' attack on a Belarusian oil refinery, based on information from several sources, including a captured Russian serviceman.Ukraine then appeared to claim responsibility, with a nighttime video filmed aboard an unmanned sea drone showing it driving into the ship's port side, without being fired upon The attack damaged a Russian navy ship.Russia said Ukraine attacked a navy base in near the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in the early hours - if confirmed, it would be the first Ukrainian strike on a main commercial port inside Russia.If you're just joining us this afternoon, here's a recap of the main developments so far today:

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