Oleksandr Motuzianyk, the Ukrainian Presidential Administration’s spokesman on the Ukrainian military’s Anti-Terrorism Operation, has announced that one Ukrainian soldier has been killed and 14 wounded over the last 24 hours, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
An extremely powerful explosion occurred this morning in a Russian military camp, in the Rostov region, near the village of Kuzminka, around 70 kilometres from the Ukrainian border.
Mikko Laaksonen is in Finland and has been watching today’s developments. The first thing he notes is that while the Finnish government’s reporting of this story has made no claims as to the origin of the submarine, the Russian state-controlled press has still criticized the statements:
The following is Finland’s official statement on the foreign submarine spotted off its coast: Finnish Navy detected possible underwater target in the territorial waters off Helsinki.
The Finnish military fired handheld underwater depth charges as a warning against a suspected foreign submarine in waters near the capital of Helsinki, Reuters reported.
Fighting intensified over the night of April 24-April 25, the Ukrainian ATO [Anti-Terrorist Operation] reported on its Facebook page.
The drama involving a clash of wills between Moscow officials and Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov took another turn early this morning Moscow time as Kadyrov decided not to let the matter rest but challenged the head of the Investigative Committe again.
Leviy Bereg reports that the Ukrainian military’s ATO press centre has claimed that Russian-backed fighters have attacked Ukrainian positions 29 times between midnight and 18:00 today.
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has announced this evening on the Ukraina television channel that, in the event of an offensive by Russian-backed forces, he will propose the introduction of martial law.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has presented evidence today that Ukrainian troops in the Donbass are being attacked with advanced Russian anti-tank missiles that have not been exported to Ukraine.
