INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The fire on a Russian gas production platform in the Black Sea was so large two days after it was hit by a Ukrainian missile that it showed
Crimea, the drilling rig was struck at 8:37 a.m
garrisons and stored equipment for air defense, radar warfare and reconnaissance," Bratchuk told an online briefing Tuesday.Despite the
it had carried out strikes on the Russia-controlled island, which is about 70 kilometers west from the damaged gas production platforms.In
addition to the Moskva, which sank after it was targeted in a missile attack by the Ukrainian armed forces, at least 9 other Russian vessels
have been destroyed in the Black Sea since the beginning of the war, according to Oryx, an intelligence blog that tracks Russia's military
Crimean-based energy company Chernomorneftogaz that extracts a total of about 1 billion cubic meters of gas a year, according to Igor
three damaged offshore platforms, known as the Boyko towers after a former Ukrainian energy minister, were seized from Ukraine by Russia in
