(Reuters) - A senior Ukrainian official suggested a series of explosions at a Russian air base in Crimea could have been the work of partisan saboteurs, as Kyiv denied any responsibility for the incident deep inside Russian-occupied territory.
Russian shelling killed 11 people in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region overnight, Governor Valentyn Reznychenko said yesterday, as Britain said Russia had “almost certainly” established a major new ground force to support its war.
The new Russian force, called the 3rd Army Corps, is based in the city of Mulino, east of Russia’s capital, Moscow, the British Ministry of Defence said in a daily intelligence bulletin.
The ministry added that Russian commanders were facing “competing operational priorities” of reinforcing their offensive in the Donbas region in the east, as well as strengthening defenses against Ukrainian counterattacks in the south.
After failing to capture Kyiv