"The Montreux Convention limits Russia's movement of warships through the Turkish Straits. Despite this, a Russian corvette from Project 22800 vanished from the Black Sea. Surprisingly, the ship Tucza reappeared in an entirely different body of water. How did this happen?Until recently, the Russian missile corvette Tucza, a Karakurt-class (project 22800) ship, was docked at the port of Novorossiysk and other vessels. Satellite imagery revealed that the Karakurt-class corvette, corvette Tucza, vanished from the port of Novorossiysk, its previous station. Though the ship did not traverse the Dardanelles—blocked in wartime scenarios by the Montreux Convention—it emerged in the Caspian Sea, an entirely different body of water..... the Russians opted to transfer their ship through inland waters. The small size and draught of the karakurts enable them to navigate not just at sea but also along sizable rivers.
The Russians have previously utilized this approach, routinely transferring small units between their five fleets using inland waterways. Tucza's transfer from the Black Sea showcases how relocating naval ships through a network of rivers and canals, usually practiced in peacetime, is also viable under wartime conditions." MS
"The Russian forces fired five missiles at the Sloviansk Thermal Power Plant (TPP) in Donetsk Oblast. Proskunin said that the Russian military used Smerch MLRS to attack with four cluster munitions and struck with one high-explosive missile." MS
"Anti-Israel protesters interrupted the main commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In a video posted to X, protesters carrying the Palestinian flag were seen walking down an aisle towards the front of the stage at the commencement ceremony." Breitbart
"Kiev could request that Western troops be deployed on its soil if it deems the situation on the battlefield to have become bad enough, a senior Ukrainian lawmaker has said.In an interview with French broadcaster LCI on Saturday, Aleksey Goncharenko, who represents Odessa in the Ukrainian parliament, thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for not ruling out sending Western military to his country.
The French leader earlier suggested that this issue could be put up for consideration on two conditions, first, “if the Russians were to break through the front lines [and, second,] if there were a Ukrainian request.” Describing Macron’s remarks as a “very good signal” to Russia, Goncharenko noted that foreign troops in Ukraine could be tasked with training Kiev’s military and performing other missions without engaging Moscow’s forces head-on.When asked whether Ukraine would ask the West for direct assistance if Russian troops were to approach Kharkov or Kiev, the MP said he did not rule out any scenarios." RT
"Ninety-five combat engagements were recorded on the front lines in the past 24 hours, with Ukrainian forces repelling most enemy attacks in the Avdiivka sector. According to the update, the enemy carried out 5 missile strikes, 69 air strikes and 74 MLRS attacks against the positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas. In the past 24 hours, enemy air strikes hit Krasnyi Khutir in the Chernihiv region; Luhivka in the Sumy region; Kharkiv,Slobozhanske, Vesele, Cherkaski Tyshky, Petropavlivka, and Ivanivka in the Kharkiv region; Verkhniokamianske, Spirne, Klishchiivka, Novosadove, Druzhba, Tarasivka, Novooleksandrivka, Prohres, Yevhenivka, Novoselivka Persha, Umanske, Karlivka, Heorhiivka, Kostiantynivka, Vodiane, Urozhaine, and Staromaiorske in the Donetsk region; Orikhiv and Preobrazhenka in the Zaporizhzhia region; Beryslav, Sadove, and Krynky in the Kherson region. More than 110 settlements in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions were under artillery fire.
The operational situation in the Volyn and Polissia sectors remains largely unchanged.
In the Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna sectors, the enemy maintains military presence in the border areas, conducting subversive activities to prevent the deployment of Ukrainian troops to dangerous sectors.
On the Kupiansk axis, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 12 attacks near Synkivka, Pishchane and Kyslivka in the Kharkiv region, as well as Stelmakhivka and Berestove in the Luhansk region.
On the Lyman axis, Ukrainian forces repelled nine attacks near Serebrianske Forestry in the Luhansk region and Terny in the Donetsk region.
On the Bakhmut axis, Ukrainian soldiers repulsed 12 attacks near the settlements of Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region and Spirne, Rozdolivka, Novyi, Klishchiivka, and south of Ivanivske in the Donetsk region.
On the Avdiivka axis, Ukrainian defenders repelled 20 attacks near Novooleksandrivka, Sokil, Novopokrovske, and Umanske in the Donetsk region." Ukrin
