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This is the moment an apparent Ukrainian drone slammed into Russia’s Caspian Sea flotilla in a strike hundreds of miles behind the frontline.
Footage purportedly shows a Ukrainian drone flying low over the port of Kaspiysk in Dagestan before smashing into a Russian military ship this morning.
The crash sparked a huge fireball explosion, with clouds of smoke billowing into the sky from the harbour while pedestrians watched on from a nearby pier.
The drone covered a distance of 650 miles (1,052km) from the frontline in Ukraine to the Russian port, according to OSINT experts. Video from a neighbouring ship in the Caspian Sea flotilla shows panicked sailors running away from the alleged drone attack before the massive explosion was sparked just a few feet away from them.
It comes as Kyiv said today that Ukrainian forces captured more than 700 Russian soldiers since they launched a surprise offensive into Moscow ‘s border region of Kursk in Augusty.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said one of the objectives of the shock, cross-border attack was to replenish Ukraine’s stocks of war prisoners, to exchange for captured Ukrainian troops.
Oleksandr Syrsky, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, wrote in a social media post that his troops had captured 717 Russian troops in all.
Moscow and Kyiv, despite being at war for nearly three years, still coordinate on the exchange of prisoners of war and have held dozens of swaps since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine in February, 2022.
Russian military officials and bloggers have claimed the Russian military has been pushing Ukrainian forces back from the Kursk region. Kyiv said this week it had engaged North Korean troops for the first time in Kursk since its allies in the United States and Europe sounded the alarm over the deployment of thousands of Pyongyang’s forces to bolster the Kremlin’s war efforts.
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