Kyiv has not commented on or publicly taken responsibility for the attacks.
A Ukrainian drone strike blew up a long-range Russian bomber aircraft, according to reports from Ukrainian media and the BBC.
Russia's Defense Ministry said that a drone"damaged" a plane before being shot down. Ukraine has made no official comment. The ministry said that the drones attacks were from Ukraine, and that its forces also shot down two Ukrainian drones over the western border region of Bryansk. In response, Ukraine announced a"humanitarian corridor" hugging the western Black Sea coast near Romania and Bulgaria. A Hong Kong-flagged container ship stuck in Odesa port since the invasion"Only one commercial vessel has passed through so far, has shown readiness to move by alternative routes," Denys Marchuk, deputy head of the Agrarian Council, Ukraine's largest agribusiness group, told national television.
"The military delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, led by the Ground Forces Commander Brigade General Kioumars Haydari arrived in Moscow for discussion of issues of bilateral military cooperation," the Russian Defense Ministry said, according to an English translation provided by state media outlet TASS.
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