On Sunday, Russia broke up the festivities in honor of its navy, which called concern about its security, because constant Ukrainian drone attacks were a challenge for the Kremlin.
The Russian authorities canceled the parades of warships in St. Petersburg, in the Kaliningrad region on the Baltic Sea and in the distant eastern port of Vladivostok that are usually held to mark the annual navy day celebrations.
Asked for the reason for the cancellation of the Parade in St. Petersburg, even when President Vladimir Putin arrived in his hometown to visit the Marine Head Quarter, spokesperson for Kremlin Dmitry Peskov reporters that “it is linked to the general situation, safety reasons that are above all.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that air defenses lowered at night by 99 Ukrainian drones. Later in the day, civil servants reported more drones shot near St. Petersburg. A woman was injured by drone fragments in the Lomonosov region, according to the local authorities.
Pulkovo Airport from St. Petersburg suspended dozens of flights early on Sunday because of the drone threat.
During a trip to St. Petersburg, Putin visited the historic Admiralty building to receive reports about four-day marine maneuvers that were completed on Sunday. The storm exercise in July included 150 warships from the Baltic states to the Pacific.
Putin promised to build more warships and intensify the training of the navy, and added that “the Strike Power of the Navy and combat possibilities will rise to a qualitative new level.”
Reducing the scale of the celebrations of the Navy Day reflects the concerns of Moscow over the radical drone attacks of Ukraine throughout the country.
In a series of strikes earlier in the war now in the fourth year, Ukraine sank several Russian warships in the Blacks Sea, paralyzed Moscow's maritime capacity and forced it to re-use his fleet from the Russia-occupied Crimea to Novorossiysk.
And in a daring attack on 1 June attack Codenaam 'SpiderWeb', Ukraine drones used to hit various Russian airbases with long-distance bombers in Russia, from the Arctic Kola-Peninsula to Siberia. The drones were launched from trucks that was secretly placed near the bases and the Russian army surprised in a humiliating blow to the Kremlin.
The raid destroyed or damaged many of the bombers used by Moscow to launch air strikes on Ukraine, causing a large moral boost for Kiev to be confronted with Russian attacks along the 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) frontlinie at a time when Kyiv's Ondermanned and subordinate troops are confronted.
Russia continued to hit Ukraine with drone and rocket attacks on Sunday.
In Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, a drone attack was damaged civil infrastructure objects, an administrative building and non-residential building, which wounded three people. Elsewhere in the region, two men died after they were blown up by a land mine and another woman was injured by a drone attack on another community in the region, the regional military government said.
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