INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
on June 22 to clarify that a gas drilling platform, not an oil drilling platform, was struck.Ukraine has admitted striking a gas drilling
platform in the Black Sea, saying Tuesday it was being used by Russian troops as a military installation.The attack, which took place on
24.It targeted a rig with four towers some 70 kilometers off the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, which Ukraine said was being used as a
reconnaissance," Sergiy Bratchuk of Odessa's regional military administration told an online briefing."They were being turned into
fortification points that were helping the Russians achieve full control of the northwestern part of the Black Sea," he said, his remarks
This is not just a platform for extracting gas," he said in a video posted on his Telegram channel.Bratchuk also said Ukrainian forces had
"dealt a significant blow to the Russian garrison" on Snake Island, a symbolic Black Sea territory taken by Moscow at the start of its
