Ukraine’s current long-range capabilities are not capable of providing full fire control over Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during the second Crimean Platform parliamentary summit in Prague on Oct. 24.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces responded to the deployment of two Russian missile carriers equipped with 16 Kalibr missiles, coordination press center’s head of the Ukraine’s Southern Defense Forces Natalia Humeniuk said on Oct. 24, commenting on reports of night explosions in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol and underwater drone attacks on the naval group of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Eight drones approaching Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula were "neutralized" by Russian electronic warfare systems and air defenses overnight, the Kremlin's puppet governor in the Ukrainian territory, Sergei Aksyonov, claimed on Telegram on Oct. 17.
The Nikolai Muru rescue tugboat was also damaged in the Ukrainian Navy's Oct. 13 attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which targeted the Pavel Derzhavin patrol ship, the Ukrainian Navy spokesman and 3rd Rank Captain Dmytro Pletenchuk told NV’s sister publication Ukrainska Pravda in an Oct. 14 interview.