Ukraine announced on Monday, September 11, that it had taken over from the Russians an oil and gas platform in the Black Sea that had been controlled by Moscow since 2015. Military Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Attacks between Ukrainian and Russian forces in the Black Sea have increased since mid-July, when Russia scrapped a grain deal that allowed Ukrainian grain to be exported for a year despite the war.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense speaks of “successes” on the southern front. The Ukrainian army has made slight progress in recent weeks, including in the east near Bakhmut. Ukrainian forces “continue offensive operations in the south” and “have made successes south of Robotyné”. [localité reprise aux Russes fin août] and west of Verbové,” Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Maliar told state television.
Moscow claims to have shot down two Ukrainian drones in the Belgorod region. “Our defense system worked in the Yakovlevsky district: two aerial drones were shot down,” regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram, adding that the plane’s debris fell on a road near a residential building. According to Russia, these attacks did not result in any fatalities.
Russia claims Putin’s party won a landslide victory in elections in the annexed territories. The Central Election Commission of Russia said on Sunday evening that the Russian president’s United Russia party emerged victorious in these regional elections in the four annexed regions of Ukraine (Zaporizhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk) with more than 70% of the vote. Polls are viewed as “illegal” by Kiev and its allies.