Ukraine says it has bombed Russian ship carrying drone parts at Caspian port
15 August 2025
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Ukraine and Russia
An intense Russian effort to achieve drone superiority in the sector since early May has made it more difficult for Ukraine to repel the infiltrators, according to Sam Cranny-Evans, a military analyst with the Royal United Services Institute thinktank. The Russians, he said, had established “some form of aerial dominance” over the Pokrovsk area that had “enabled them to work on further isolating Ukrainian units in the area, hitting logistics vehicles moving to and from the front, as well as troop rotations".