A Russian commander appeared in a video claiming at least 8,500 members of Moscow's Airborne Forces had been wounded since the war began - but the footage was taken down just hours later.Here are all the other major updates from the past 24 hours: Ukrainian sea drones also attacked a Russian navy base near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and were destroyed by warships, it said. Overnight, Russia's defence ministry claimed to have downed 10 Ukrainian drones over the annexed peninsula of Crimea - which has been targeted several times in recent weeks. Welcome back to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. "Russia likely considers them as acceptably accurate and they have much smaller warheads than cruise missiles," the ministry said. There is a chance, however, that Russia has selected the weapons in the belief they are "less likely to risk escalation than cruise missiles". The weapons have struck targets as close as 200 metres from the Romanian border, which the ministry said suggests Moscow has "evolved its risk appetite for conducting strikes near NATO territory". "It is highly likely attempting to coerce international shipping into stopping trading via the ports," it said in its latest intelligence update. The attacks on the Danube hubs have been carried out by Iranian-produced one-way attack uncrewed aerial vehicles, according to the UK's defence ministry, and are probably an attempt to halt trading. The wave of strikes began after Moscow pulled out of the key Black Sea grain deal, which had enabled goods to be exported safely and provided some protection to ports. Over the past two weeks, Russia has carried out several attacks against Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea and along the Danube River.
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