The Sevastopol Academic Dance Theater in 2023. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
An air raid alert was declared in Sevastopol as Moscow-appointed officials shut down traffic on the Crimean bridge on Nov. 1, Russian state-controlled media reported.
Russia-appointed city chief Mikhail Razvozhaev said that smoke could be seen in the bay area and was caused by military operations.
Razvozhaev later claimed that traffic on the bridge had been restored.
Earlier on Oct. 30, several explosions were reported in the city by local media. Russian-backed authorities said anti-aircraft operations were being conducted.
Lance Luo (Li P. Luo) is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. Previously, he worked at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Hromadske Television in Kyiv. He also spent three years in finance and strategy consulting. Mr. Luo graduated from the University of Southern California and serves as an arbitrator at FINRA.
The attack seriously damaged the mooring point two (SMP-2), prompting port authorities to halt all loading operations and order tankers out of the water area.
The operation targeted ships that, according to the source, could have transported nearly $70 million worth of oil and helped Moscow bypass international sanctions.
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Orban reiterated his readiness to hold the peace talks on Ukraine in Hungary, even as plans for a summit in Budapest between Putin and Trump have been scrapped.
Vasyl Verameichyk, a Belarusian soldier who previously served as a volunteer fighter for Ukraine, was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Belarus, independent outlet Belsat reported on Nov. 28.
Andriy Yermak, head of the President's Office, submitted his resignation following searches by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) at his premises earlier on Nov. 28, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.
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