Kyiv has consistently targeted Russian assets around Crimea, including facilities belonging to Moscow's Black Sea Fleet.

An increase in Russian attacks on Ukrainian port infrastructure in recent weeks threatens food shipments to destinations from Gaza to southern Africa, the UK warned.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said: “ Russia ’s indiscriminate strikes on ports in the Black Sea underscore that Putin is willing to gamble on global food security in his attempts to force Ukraine into submission.

Russia's Black Sea Fleet has been forced to move many warships from the naval base of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsular, which Russia annexed in 2014, due to attacks by Ukraine, a Russian-installed official was quoted as saying on Sunday.

The Russian Black Sea Fleet has left Crimea. The main reason for this, as it turns out, is the drone attacks by the Ukrainian forces. — Ukrinform.

"It (Black Sea Fleet) was forced to change, in fact, its registration because our large ships became large targets for the enemy's unmanned boats," Dmitry Rogozin, a Russian official heading the Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast,

Rogozin, a former head of the Russian space agency, confirmed the withdrawal, marking an official acknowledgment from Moscow that the fleet has been forced

Dmitry Rogozin, the former head of Roscosmos, Russia's national space agency, as well as the Russian-backed "head" of the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, revealed that the Russian Federation's Black Sea Fleet altered its location due to strikes from Ukrainian naval drones.

The Black Sea Fleet decided to leave Crimea. The main reason for this, as it turned out, was the Ukrainian Armed Forces' drones, according to Russian Senator Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin said that the Black Sea Fleet changed its registration because of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' drones.