In the early hours of Monday, Russia's Black Sea Fleet successfully repelled a drone attack on the Crimean port of Sevastopol, according to Moscow-installed governor Mikhail Razvozhaev. In a statement on the Telegram messaging app, Razvozhaev said that one surface drone was destroyed while the second one exploded on its own. He also confirmed that there was no damage to the city and that the situation had returned to normal.
Sevastopol, along with the rest of the Crimean peninsula, was annexed by Russia in 2014 but is still considered by the international community as part of Ukraine. The drone attack is likely to increase tensions between Russia and Ukraine, which have been high since the annexation.
In a separate development, the son of Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, claimed that he had served with the Wagner mercenary group in Ukraine for six months. Nikolai Peskov made the statement in an interview with the pro-Kremlin daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, in which he said that it was his "duty" to serve and that he "couldn't sit to one side watching as friends and others went off there."