Putin forced to suddenly cancel Russia’s Navy parade after huge losses | World | News
Vladimir Putin was forced to cut a one -day pump and ceremony celebrating the Russian Navy due to Ukrainian drone attacks. On a humiliating day for the Kremlin, the festivals planned today (Sunday), Russian air defenses, returned to “security reasons” in a few regions because they dropped more than 90 Ukrainian aircraft in several regions.
President Putin witnessed the parade of a warship in St Petersburg, but before the Russian leader had to leave, he was reduced to swing along a small raptor ship before he had to leave. Annual Navy Day celebrations were planned to take place in St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad in Baltic and in the remote port of Vladivostok.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in his statement to journalists, Putin, even when he came to the house to visit the navy headquarters, even when the passage ceremony in St. Petersburg was asked.
In recent months, the Kremlin had a high alarm in recent months because it was NATO countries in Baltic UP military expenditures, and President Putin was willing to re -establish Russia’s nuclear threat to the West.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that air defenses have dropped 99 Ukraine drones in several regions overnight and 51 more drones were shot near St. Petersburg on Sunday. According to local authorities, a man was killed by drone pieces in the region and three more people were injured.
Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport suspended dozens of flights on Sunday due to drone threat. Putin visited the historical Admirallik building to receive reports about the four -day marine maneuvers completed on Sunday during a trip to St. Petersburg. July storm exercise included 150 warships from the Baltic to the Pacific.
Putin promised to build more warships and intensify the education of the navy, and added that the navy’s strike power and war capability will qualitally go to a new level ”.
In addition, the Admiral Grigorovich Frigate of the Baltic Fleet at the Kronstadt Naval Base just west of St. Petersburg greeted his crew to get rid of the Ukrainian drone attack in the region in the early hours of the day. Reducing the scale of the Navy Day celebrations reflects Moscow’s concerns about Ukraine’s country -wide sweep drone attacks.
In the fourth year, in a series of strikes at the beginning of the war, Ukraine sank several Russian warships in the Black Sea, hid Moscow’s maritime ability, and forced the fleet to reorganize the fleet of Russia from the occupied Crimea to Novorossarysk.
And in a daring 1 June attack code, Ukraine, “Spiderweb, used drones to hit a few Russian air bases hosting long -range bombers in Russia from Arctic Kola Peninsula to Siberia. The drones were thrown from trucks secretly placed next to the bases, surprising the Russian army with a humiliating blow to the Kremlin.
The raid has destroyed most of the bombing aircraft used by Moscow to start air strikes on Ukraine, or damaged, and Kyiv’s inadequate and low -armed forces faced a major increase for Kiev at a time when he faced Russian attacks on the 600 -mile -long front.
Russia continued to hit Ukraine with drone and missile strikes on Sunday.
In Sumy in the northeast of Ukraine, a drone attack damaged civil infrastructure objects, an administrative building and non -residential buildings and injured three people. In other parts of the region, two men died after being blown up by a land mine, and the regional military administration said that another woman was injured by the drone attack on another community in the region.
