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Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) said on Saturday it had destroyed three Russian radar stations in occupied Crimea a day earlier.

A Ukrainian diplomat has told a court hearing in The Hague that the Crimean Bridge “must come down,” arguing that the structure was built unlawfully to strengthen Russia’s grip on the Sea of Azov.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that the return of Crimea to Ukraine is “a requirement of international law”.

A strike on Russian naval facilities in Sevastopol resulted in the sinking of a submarine and an anti-aircraft battery, the Ukrainian General Staff said on Saturday.

Russia is facing problems sending supplies to the Crimea region it occupies after Ukrainians hit the last operational ferry delivering military gear to the peninsula, the British defense ministry said on Thursday.

Ukraine’s military intelligence service (HUR) has said it is behind a cyberattack that caused outages across a variety of sectors in Russia on Wednesday, including major banks and some airlines.

A Ukrainian drone attack damaged a strategic ferry and killed one person on Tuesday evening in Port Kavkaz on occupied Crimea’s eastern coast, Russia’s regional governor has said.

A large-scale fire near Russian-occupied Oleshki in the Kherson region resulted from a sabotage operation, according to a report by the Atesh guerrilla movement on Telegram.

Russian troops in occupied Crimea have deployed an anti-aircraft missile system close to a beach in Sevastopol, thereby posing a threat to civilians, the Ukrainian Tatar resistance movement Atesh reported.

As the dust settles on the first round of a French general election which saw a far-right party emerge victorious, a key talking point is what are the implications for Ukraine.

The Russian military has deployed S-300 missile systems in the vicinity of private homes in occupied Crimea, causing concern and discontent among their residents.

After the Crimean Peninsula is liberated from Russian occupation, Ukraine’s powerful Black Sea Fleet will most likely be stationed there, and perhaps a NATO base will be established there, Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev told Ukrainian media on Saturday.

Independent Ukraine commemorates the deportation of Tatars from the Crimean Peninsula by Soviet authorities. Nowadays, Crimea is occupied by Russia, and its Tatar population faces persecution by the Kremlin yet again.

Overnight attacks on Russian targets in occupied Crimea and inside of Russia were the work of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the HUR military intelligence agency, Interfax-Ukraine news service reported on Friday.

Members of the Atesh partisan movement working in the Russian-occupied region of Crimea have released photographs and video footage revealing the scale of their reconnaissance work. The uploaded content, published on both Telegram and X, reveals the coordinates of oil depots and other key facilities in Sevastopol and Kerch.

On Sunday, in the Crimean city of Sevastopol, under Russian occupation since 2014, an attack resulted in a fire breaking out on one of the naval vessels has been reported by Ukrainian media citing Russian sources. According to the latter, the ship in question may be the rescue vessel Kommuna. Meanwhile, Sergei Aksyonov, the Russia-appointed governor of occupied Crimea, announced that, due to safety concerns, there will be no Victory Day parade nor the “Immortal Regiment” march on the peninsula on May 9, celebrated as Victory Day in Russia.

Occupation officials confirmed an attack occurred, but did not mention losses.

March 16, 2024, marks the tenth anniversary of the sham referendum held in Crimea.

The number of fatalities from Friday’s shelling of a residential building in Odesa in southern Ukraine by Russian forces has risen to 21; over 70 people have been injured, with some in critical condition, Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko said on Saturday.

Refat Chubarov, the head of the Mejlis, the governing body of the Crimean Tatars operating in Ukraine, stated in an interview with the RBK-Ukraine website that approximately 50,000 Crimean Tatars were forced to leave Crimea in the past ten years.