Ukraine says it has bombed the Russian ship carrying drone parts to the Caspian port | Ukraine

Ukraine claims to have conducted a long -term drone attack on a supply ship which, according to him, transported components of Iran drones, striking it in a port north of the Caspian Sea, in a show of force before Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin for an Alaska summit.

The photographs showed a partially swallowed loading ship in Olya, near Astrakhan, more than 500 miles from the front line. The army of Ukraine claimed the credit for the attack and bombing of the day after an oil refinery in Samara on the Volga river, at the bottom of Russia.

The Ukraine staff said that the ship had struck, Port Olya-4, was “loaded with components” for Shahed drones “and Iran’s ammunition”. The port, he added, was an “important logistics center for the supply of military goods”.

kyiv’s forces have shown several times that they can strike military logistics and energy targets for hundreds of kilometers in Russia, although attacks seem to have an impact on damping on the Kremlin long -term war effort.

While the American president is preparing to meet his Russian counterpart in Alaska to discuss the end of the Ukraine war and other bilateral problems, Ukraine remains under pressure in the battle of the earth, as demonstrated by a violation in its defenses in the Donbas Eastern last weekend.

Several groups of Russian saboteur have pierced the Ukrainian fronts of approximately 6 miles in a strategically important part of the front in Donetsk province near the road junction of Dobroplyya, where the supply roads had passed to the east to Kramatorsk.

Friday, the troops of the Elite Azov body of kyiv put the efforts alongside the 79th and 82nd brigades to mop infiltration, but the breach, although contained, was not eliminated.

On Friday, the president of Ukraine, Voldoymyr Zelenskyy, said that Ukraine had managed to “counter the attempts of the Russian forces to take a foothold” – and declared that a decision had been made to further strengthen the sector and the regional front line.

The shortages of troops and the length of the active front line, more than 600 miles long, mean that the point of contact is not permanently maintained. Instead, it is made up of a series of fox holes that Russian attackers seek to sneak using small slightly armed deep recognition groups (DRGS).

An intense Russian effort to achieve the superiority of the drone in the sector since early May has made more difficult for Ukraine to repel infiltrates, according to Sam Cranny-Evans, military analyst at the Royal United Services Institute Thinktank.

The Russians, he said, had established “a form of air domination” in the Pokrovsk region which had “made it possible to work on more Ukrainian units in the region, hitting logistics vehicles moving towards and from the front, as well as the rotations of troops”.

Ukraine, he thought, could “fight to respond to a breakthrough with the available forces” as a result, a challenge aggravated by the fact that units such as Azov which are thrown on the front line to face the Russian infiltrations “are already stressed and extended from several recent deployments”.

Earlier this week, Zelenskyy described the attack as politically timed and said that Russia would use it to try to show American leaders that he was gradually gaining war and that kyiv’s continuous support would be wasted.

Friday, referring to the summit, the president added: “The Russian army continues to undergo significant losses in its attempts to obtain more favorable political posts for Russian management at the Alaska meeting.”

Ukraine soldiers have published images of what seemed to be an important fire in the Syzran oil refinery in the Samara region in Russia. The factory, said general staff, “produces a wide range of fuel, including aeronautical kerosene” and provided the country’s army.

The Russian governor of Samara said that a drone attack had caused a fire in an unpertified “industrial enterprise”, but that it had been extinct quickly.

The Shahed drones that bomb the cities of Ukraine every evening were designed in Iran, and earlier in the war, Russia depended on the supply of Tehran, the shipments traveling on the Caspian Sea between the two countries.

However, Russia is now making Shahed drones in two factories that have been shared after sharing technology – which means that Iran, also weakened after its own war with Israel, is less important military support.