He lives. Russian Governor in Crimea: Intercepting Drone Attacks on Sevastopol – UK Defense Secretary Wants to Give Up Mandate | Ukraine and Russia war

Russian anti-aircraft forces and the Russian Black Sea military fleet intercepted eight Ukrainian drones over the Crimean port city of Sevastopol on Sunday morning. This is what a governor installed by Moscow on the peninsula says in a message on Telegram.

Mikhail Razvozaev, the governor of Sevastopol, wrote on the social media: “No objects were damaged either in the city or in the coastal zone.”

No immediate comment was available from Ukraine on the attack on Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, according to the Reuters news agency.

According to a A Russian official in Crimea, the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and the Russian Air Force are pushing back Ukrainian drones strike the port of Sevastopol in Crimea. This was reported by the Reuters news agency

Attacks continue on the port of Sevastopol and the Balaclava and Khersones quarters of the city. This says Mikhail Razvogaevthe Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol, on the messaging app Telegram.

No details have yet been released on the scale of the attack or the potential damage from the attacks on Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.

British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace plans to resign in the next government reshuffle. He said this in an interview with The Sunday Times.

Wallace was instrumental in the British response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He has been Minister of Defense since July 2019 and is known to be an ally of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He survived the very short tenure of Johnson’s successor Liz Truss and has also remained in the position under current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Wallace also held government positions under Johnson’s predecessors Theresa May and David Cameron, making him the longest-serving government member.

According to British media, Sunak intends to reshuffle his cabinet again in September. This is when Wallace wants to call it quits. He also says that he will not run in the upcoming parliamentary elections. “I got into politics in the Scottish parliament in 1999,” Wallace told the Sunday Times. “That’s 24. I’ve spent more than seven years with three phones by my bed.”

The British Defense Minister had earlier expressed interest in the post of Secretary-General of NATO. However, the mandate of current Western Defense Alliance chairman Jens Stoltenberg was extended by one year at the beginning of this month until October 1, 2024.

The Russian secret service, the FSB, claims to have thwarted an assassination attempt against two known individuals. They are Margarita Simonyan, one of the most important voices in the Kremlin media apparatus, and Ksenia Sobchak, a well-known influencer who has been critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The day before, the FSB said in a press release that it had arrested members of a neo-Nazi group called “Paragraph 88” in Moscow and in the western Ryazan region. They could have been engaged by Ukrainian intelligence to kill the two people for a fee.

As always, Russian claims cannot be independently verified.

Margarita Simonyan is the chief editor of the state channel RT. She is one of the most famous figures in Moscow’s information war paralleling the offensive in Ukraine.

Ksenia Sobchak is the daughter of the former mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, who was a tutor to current President Vladimir Putin at the time. Ksenia Sobchak has a YouTube channel with a large following in Russia that regularly criticizes the authorities. She also criticized the attack on Ukraine.

Attacks or attempted attacks against supporters of the war in Ukraine often occur in Russia. Moscow accuses Kiev, but the Ukrainians mostly deny it or refrain from commenting.

The commander of the Ukrainian forces, Valery Zalogny, confirmed in an interview with The Washington Post that his country had carried out attacks on Russian territory.

“It is our problem and it is up to us to decide how to kill the enemy,” said the commander. “It is possible and necessary to kill him in the war on our lands.”

Russia’s border regions are regularly bombarded by artillery and drones from Ukraine. Remarkably, Kiev confirms this. Ukrainians usually keep silent.

According to Zalogny, the attacks are carried out with their own weapons, not with Western weapons. The West supplies weapons to Ukraine, but does not want to use them on Russian soil.

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted, in an interview with the Russian newspaper “Kommersant”, that he tried to replace Yevgeny Prigozhin as commander of the Wagner mercenary army. However, the president said that this attempt failed after Prigozhin himself rejected the offer. After the short-lived insurrection at the end of June, Putin seems to want to drive a wedge between the Wagner fighters and their current leader.