'Thanks to the pilots for the successful combat work against the enemy control point!' Mykola Oleshchuk, the head of Ukraine's air force, said.
Ukraine destroyed a Russian tanker that Moscow used for surveillance and for deploying first-person-view drones in southern Ukraine, according to Kyiv's military.Ukraine's air force conducted a 'successful strike' on the Russian-flagged Mechanik Pogodin on Tuesday, Kyiv's navy said in a statement.Ukraine said Russia's military was using the vessel as a command center, with the ship serving to launch FPV drones and to carry electronic warfare equipment.
The Kinburn Spit, currently controlled by Russia, sits on the mouth of the Dnieper River and can control vessels reaching and leaving the Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv.Ukraine made sweeping gains in Kherson in its first counteroffensive in late 2022, pushing Russian forces back to the east bank of the Dnieper River that has roughly marked the front lines in the region throughout 2023.
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