Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine early Monday, including in the capital, Kyiv, as Russia launched missiles in possible retaliation against a weekend drone strike by Ukrainian forces on a fuel depot in Kremlin-occupied Crimea. Local authorities urged residents to take shelter and said air defenses are at work.
Ukrainian officials say Saturday’s attack on the depot in Sevastopol — home to the Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet — was part of the buildup to a long-awaited counteroffensive by Kyiv’s forces to retake territory seized by Moscow. Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s southern command, told local television Sunday that undermining Russia’s logistics helps prepare for the “broad full-scale offensive that everyone expects.”
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Before his death, Tatarsky had become so well known that he received an invitation to the Kremlin when President Vladimir Putin announced his illegal plans last year to annex four regions in southeastern Ukraine. In a live stream from the September event, he proclaimed: “We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will rob everyone we have to.”
