A month after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, its forces are being pushed back around Kyiv and are taking defensive positions northwest of the capital, a US official said. Follow here for live news updates.
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15 hr 19 min ago
The Russian ship destroyed in Berdyansk was the "Saratov," says Ukraine
From CNN's Andrew Carey in Lviv
In this satellite photo smoke rises after an attack that Ukraine's navy said sank a large Russian landing ship in the port city of Berdyansk, Ukraine, on March 24. (Planet Labs PBC/AP)
Ukrainian armed forces named the Russian landing ship they say they attacked and destroyed in Berdyansk as the "Saratov," in a statement on Friday.
In
earlier reporting, the ship was named as the "Orsk."
“In the Azov operational zone, according to updated information, a large landing ship 'Saratov' was destroyed during the attack on the occupied Berdyansk port," the statement said.
The statement identified the two other large landing ships -- the "Caesar Kunikov" and "Novocherkassk" -- that were also said to have been destroyed during the attack.
"Other losses of the enemy are being clarified," the statement said.
Ukrainian armed forces said they destroyed the large
Russian landing ship at the port of Berdyansk in southern Ukraine on Thursday.
The port, which had recently been occupied by Russian forces with several Russian warships in dock, was rocked by a series of heavy explosions soon after dawn.
Social media videos showed fires raging at the dockside, with a series of secondary explosions reverberating across the city.
Several Russian ships had been unloading military equipment at Berdyansk in recent days, according to reports from the port by Russian media outlets.
14 hr 24 min ago
Russia claims its forces destroyed large fuel depot in Ukraine with cruise missiles
From CNN's Radina Gigova
Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed Friday that Russian forces destroyed "the largest of the remaining fuel depots" near Kyiv, with a strike carried out with sea-launched Kalibr
cruise missiles.
"On the evening of March 24, a strike was carried out with sea-launched Kalibr precision cruise missiles on a fuel base in Kalynovka, outside Kyiv," Konashenkov claimed.
"The largest of the remaining fuel depot of the Ukrainian armed forces, which supplied fuel to military units in the central part of the country, was destroyed," Konashenkov added.
CNN could not immediately verify that claim.
More details have emerged this week about the military arsenal that Russia is using in Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden
confirmed on Monday that Russia has also used
hypersonic missiles in its invasion.
"And if you'll notice, (Russia has) just launched the hypersonic missile, because it's the only thing that they can get through with absolute certainty," Biden said. "It's a consequential weapon ... it's almost impossible to stop it. There's a reason they're using it."
But British intelligence and even Biden's own defense secretary have downplayed Russia's use of its air-launched Kinzhal missiles.
CNN's Brad Lendon contributed reporting to this post.
