Chemical absorbent booms in the Dniester River in Curesnita, Moldova on the border with Ukraine, after oil spill caused by Russian attacks, March 17, 2026 (Aurel Obreja/AP)
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UPDATE 1142 GMT:
Ukraine has attacked Russian military sites in the city of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea overnight.
Residents reported that a building housing Russia’s 3rd Radio-Technical Air Defense Regiment was targeted. The Telegram channel Crimean Wind claimed at least five drones struck a building belonging to the Russian defense conglomerate Almaz-Antey, a State-owned manufacturer of air defense systems such as the S-300 and S-400.
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said they struck a logistics warehouse at the Khersones airfield and equipment supporting electronic warfare and radio reconnaissance systems.
Russian proxy governor Mikhail Razvozhaev claimed 27 drones were downed while approaching Sevastopol. He asserted that one person was killed and two injured.
Russia's Almaz-Antey military concern, based in occupied Sevastopol, has been feeding war machine
On 19 March, drones came to stop it. The building of the company that provides technical base for maintenance of air defense systems was struck precisely
Krymskyi Veter pic.twitter.com/3OVVPsiiY0— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) March 19, 2026
ORIGINAL ENTRY: A Russian strike on a hydroelectric plant in Ukraine has cut water supplies to ten of thousands of people in neighboring Moldova.
Russia’s attack on the Novodnistrovsk plant spilled oil into the Dniester River, which flows through both countries. The plant, about 15 km (9 miles) upstream from Moldova’s northern border with Ukraine, supplies water to around 80% of Moldova’s population of about 2.5 million.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu said Moscow is “threatening Moldova’s water supply”.
