Hours later, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that during the attack there were Russian drones that fell on Romanian territory, but Bucharest “categorically” denied this claim.
Russia claimed on Monday it had destroyed four Ukrainian speedboats carrying soldiers in the Black Sea, after Russian forces claimed on August 30 that they smashed Kiev special forces vessels.
Russian authorities claimed the boats were traveling in the direction of Cape Tarjankut, west of the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014.
Moscow also denounced on Monday that it repelled Ukrainian drone bombings, one near the Crimean peninsula, and another in Kursk, a southern Russian region near the border with Ukraine.
In the advance of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Kiev claimed on Monday that its troops had made limited progress on the southern front, where it concentrated its operation to repel Russian forces, and that it also recovered territory near Bakhmut, a town in the east, devastated by the fighting and which Russia managed to take in May after fierce fighting.
In the Ukrainian capital, the authorities announced that they received a new bomb alert against all schools in Kiev, three days after a first threat, which turned out to be false, on September 1, the date the school year began.
The Kiev local police indicated in the afternoon that they “had received information” about the possible presence of explosives “in all shopping and leisure centers” in the capital.
The Ukrainian Defense Minister – dismissed on Sunday by President Zelenski, who called for “a new approach” in the face of the counteroffensive to repel the Russian invasion – said Monday that he delivered his resignation letter to Parliament.
The announcement of the change of the minister occurs after several corruption scandals that affected the Defense portfolio in full conflict.