• 10:13 a.m.: Russian authorities say they have repelled drone attack in Crimea

The Russian administration in annexed Crimea said Sunday that it had repelled overnight a raid by a dozen Ukrainian drones on Sevastopol, at a time when an offensive by Kiev is looming.

"Overnight, air defense and electronic warfare units repelled a new attack on Sevastopol," the home port of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, the city's governor.

In a message on Telegram, he claimed that "more than a dozen drones" had been launched by Ukraine, assuring that two of them had been shot down over the sea and that another had fallen into a forest after "losing control".

"No infrastructure in the city was damaged," the governor added.

  • 9:57 a.m.: Gas pipeline and power lines damaged in Russia's Belgorod region, governor says

Ukrainian forces attacked the Russian Belgorod region on Saturday night, damaging a gas pipeline, power lines and a house in the village of Spodariouchino, the governor of the region said Sunday.

"The most important thing is that there were no casualties," Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on the messaging app Telegram. Reuters was unable to independently verify this information.

Belgorod, close to the border with Ukraine, is one of the regions in southern Russia that have been targeted, since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, by attacks against targets such as fuel and ammunition depots.

  • 8:37 a.m.: Polish plane intercepted by Russia in Black Sea

A Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter intercepted a Polish plane on a mission for Frontex over the Black Sea on Friday, causing pilots to temporarily "lose control" of the aircraft, according to a statement issued Sunday in Warsaw.

On Saturday evening, Romania, which had been the first to mention the incident, denounced a "totally unacceptable aggressive behavior" of Moscow.

According to Polish border guards, the Russian plane "entered without any radio contact on the area of operations designated by Romania", carried out "aggressive and dangerous maneuvers, approaching the Polish border guard plane three times without the necessary safety distance".

  • 4:51 a.m.: IAEA chief calls for "preventing serious nuclear accident" in Zaporizhzhia

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned Saturday of the risk of a "serious nuclear accident" at the Zaporizhzhia plant, occupied by Russian forces in Ukraine, due to the evacuation of a nearby town where most of the employees live and the "potentially dangerous" situation around the site.

"The situation in the area near the Zaporizhizha nuclear power plant is becoming increasingly unpredictable and potentially dangerous," Rafael Mariano Grossi was quoted as saying in an IAEA statement.

"This large nuclear facility must be protected. I will continue to press for a commitment from all parties to this vital goal, and the IAEA will continue to do everything in its power to help ensure the nuclear safety and security of the plant," he said.

With AFP and Reuters

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