Serhiy Haidai, governor of Luhansk region, said just one Russian soldier survived an artillery strike on a Wagner mercenary base in the town of Kadiivka on Thursday.
The Moskva - a 600ft Russian warship that sank yesterday in the Black Sea - could have been carrying two nuclear warheads when it went down, experts and analysts have warned today.
The U.S. now believes that the Russian missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of President Vladimir Putin s Black Sea fleet, was hit by two Ukrainian missiles before sinking, according to a senior U.S. official.
Ukraine has officially claimed to have struck the Moskva, Russia s Black Sea flagship, with Neptune anti-ship missiles - causing significant damage with the vessel starting to sink.
In a sign the Kremlin may be moving its naval forces out of missile range, a senior US official said Moscow s vessels are now 80 nautical miles from the coast after a missile strike on the Moskva flagship.