Russia on Sunday reduced the festival by honoring its Navy citing security concerns to its Navy, as the Ukrainian drone attacks challenged the Kremlin.
Russian authorities canceled a parade of warships in St. Petersburg, in Kalinigrad region on Baltic and Vladivostok’s distant port, usually held to mark the annual Navy Day celebrations.
Asked about the reason for the cancellation of the parade in St. Petersburg, President Vladimir Putin reached his home city to visit the Navy headquarters, Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov told reporters that “This overall situation is associated with security reasons, which are above all others.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that Air Defense dropped 99 Ukrainian drones in several areas overnight. Later in the day, the authorities reported more drones near St. Petersburg. According to local officials, a woman was injured by drone pieces in the Lomonosov region.
Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg suspended dozens of flights in the early hours of Sunday due to the threat of a drone.
On a visit to St. Petersburg, Putin visited the historic Admiralty Building on Sunday to receive a report on the four -day naval maneuvers wrapped. The July storm practice included 150 warships from Baltix to Prashant.
Putin vowed to build more warships and intensify the Navy training, saying that “the Navy’s strike power and fighter capacity would increase to a new level to a new level.”
Reducing the scale of Navy Day celebrations reflects Moscow’s concerns about Ukraine’s broad drone attacks across the country.
In its fourth year now in a series of strikes in the war in the war, Ukraine immersed several Russian warships in the Blax Sea, crippled Moscow’s naval capacity and forced it to rebuild its fleet from Russia-Kabje Crimea to Novorosis.
And codented in a daring June 1 attack “Spiderweb“Ukraine used drones to hit several Russian airbase hosting long -range bombers in Russia from the Arctic Cola Peninsula to Siberia. The drone was secretly placed near the hideout from trucks, which was surprised by the Russian Army in a derogatory blow to the Russian army.
The raids destroyed or damaged several bombers used by Moscow to launch air strikes on Ukraine, which promotes a major morale for the kiv, when Kiev’s underumman and under-gun army are facing dandruff with a front line of 1,000 km (600 mi).
Russia continued Ukraine with a drone and missile strike on Sunday.
In Sumi in the northeast of Ukraine, a drone attack damaged civil infrastructure items, an administrative building and non-residential complex, injuring three people. The regional military administration said that two people were killed and another woman was injured by a drone attack on another community in the region after being blown from a landmine.
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