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Ukraine war briefing: Crimea bomb kills ‘Ukrainian sub commander who defected’
Two explosions kill six personnel in Sevastopol; drone-hit Russian refinery shuts down as sanctions block repairs. What we know on day 1,634
TL;DR
- A former Ukrainian naval officer, Robert Shageyev, described as a defector to Russia, was killed in a bomb attack in Sevastopol, Crimea.
- Four Russian explosives experts and a security guard were killed in Sevastopol while attempting to dispose of an explosive device.
- A Russian drone attack on a passenger train in the Odesa region killed the engineer and assistant engineer.
- An oil refinery in Orsk, Russia, was hit by Ukrainian drones and forced to shut down completely, with repairs potentially taking six months due to sanctions.
- Polish authorities thwarted a Russian plot to kill a Ukrainian American citizen in Warsaw.
- Ukraine has proposed a deal with Russia to halt attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea, aiming to reopen a grain corridor.
- Ukrainian drones struck the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat refinery in Bashkortostan, Russia.
- Russia and Ukraine swapped bodies of killed soldiers, with Kyiv accusing Moscow of manipulating exchanges.
- Ukraine has condemned Russian parliamentary elections scheduled for next month in occupied areas as illegal.