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.

Russian forces were fighting street-to-street battles with Ukrainian troops on the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian town of Selydove as Moscow’s forces pushed to gain control over the whole of the Donbas region,

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.

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