Putin: Attack On Ukrainian Cities Was Response To Drone Strikes On Russian Fleet

Russia’s missile attacks on Ukrainian power infrastructure this week, which included a strike on an apartment that killed a resident, was in response to a drone attack on the Russian fleet in Crimea, President Vladimir Putin told media today, as quoted by Reuters. The drone attacks targeted the Russian fleet in the Black Sea port and Russia responded by withdrawing from the UN-brokered grain export deal it had agreed to earlier this year. According to Putin, the attackers used the grain corridor created under the deal to get to their targets.…