Russian military says destroyed four Ukrainian vessels

Russia's military, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said early on Wednesday that one of its aircraft had destroyed four rapid Ukrainian vessels carrying up to 50 paratroops in an operation on the Black Sea.

 

"At around midnight Moscow time, an aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet’s naval aviation destroyed in the Black Sea four high-speed military boats carrying assault groups of the Ukrainian special operations forces comprising 50 men in total," the ministry said.