Zelensky condemns 'vile' large-scale Russian attacks that killed 15

Zelensky condemned 'vile' large‑scale Russian attacks that killed 15, renewing a telephone call for allies to supply aerial defence packages to Ukraine and saying its subject lone managed to sprout down "some" of the missiles launched by Russia overnight. According to Zelensky, 1 of the "key targets" of the onslaught was the country's vigor infrastructure, which Moscow earlier said it would intensify strikes connected pursuing Ukraine's strikes connected Moscow's vigor facilities. In an abstracted station connected Wednesday, Zelensky said Ukraine had struck 4 targets successful retaliatory attacks successful the past 24 hours, including 2 lipid facilities and a grooming crushed successful the Perm, Samara and Astrakhan regions. "There is besides a effect successful the Black Sea," the Ukrainian president wrote. On Tuesday evening, footage emerged showing an immense plume of fume engulfing an lipid tanker disconnected the seashore of Sochi, on the Black Sea successful confederate Russia. The Russian transport ministry aboriginal said unmanned boats had attacked the Liberian-flagged Aframax Rio lipid tanker. Authorities assertion the unit was rescued. Separately, Bulgaria has halted a hunt for the missing unit of a vessel that sank aft being deed by a drone connected Tuesday, Vice-Admiral Rumen Nikolov from the Maritime Administration Executive Agency said, as reported by Bulgarian tv web Nora TV. Tracking information shows the vessel was anchored astatine the confederate extremity of the Bosphorus strait until Monday when it entered the Black Sea heading north. Its last reported presumption connected ship-tracking site MarineTraffic was at 23:43 GMT on Monday in what is known as the Bulgarian exclusive economical portion of the Black Sea. Bulgarian specialist quality outlet Maritime.bg reported the Alfa Watan was attacked by a drone and sank 70nm (130km) eastbound of Byala. As well as the civilian cargo ship, a 2nd vessel - carrying atom - was also hit wrong Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone, its Prime Minister Rumen Radev said on Tuesday. The 18 unit members on the 2nd vessel were rescued. Bulgaria has not said who it believes was behind the attacks. It comes as Russia intensifies strikes in the Black Sea, particularly the eastbound side, as part of its war against Ukraine. In an evening code connected Tuesday, Zelensky claimed Russia was liable for the attacks. Moscow has not commented on the latest incident. Additional reporting by BBC Verify. Read the full story at BBC News →