Moment Ukraine destroys Putin's floating bomb as Russia launches fresh attacks

Footage showed the moment a Russian bomb was detonated in a large blast as the gruelling war between Vladimir Putin's forces and Ukraine's soldiers continues to rage on

This is the moment Ukraine destroyed Vladimir Putin's floating bomb as Russia launches fresh attacks.

Russian explosions rattled four regions in Ukraine, namely Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Poltava, and Zaporizhzhia. In the Black Sea, the Ukrainian navy was forced to destroy a Russian marine drone "threatening civilian shipping."

Footage showed the moment the Putin’s floating bomb was detonated in a large explosion. Russia carried on the war amid glee in Moscow that Trump had turned down Volodymyr Zelensky’s demand for powerful long range Tomahawk missiles to use against Russia.

Trump - after speaking by phone to Putin, and meeting Zelensky in person at the White House - blocked the missile transfer ahead of an upcoming summit with the Kremlin leader in Hungary. The session with Zelensky was “tense, frank, and at times uncomfortable discussion”, say reports.

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The latest Russian aggression triggered a fire at a civilian food warehouse in Poltava region, and destroyed residential and administrative buildings, with Zaporizhzhia hit three times during the night. The Putin strikes came after Trump said: “They should stop the war immediately…..

“You stop at the battle line and both sides should go home, go to their families, stop the killing and that should be it. Stop right now at the battle line. I told that to President Zelensky, I told it to President Putin.”

Both sides should “claim victory” and history could decide, said Trump. He said of Putin: “I think he wants to end the war. I spoke to him for two and a half hours.

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“We went through a lot of details.. He wants to get it ended.” Yet there are huge doubts as Russia went on attacking Ukraine, as happened after earlier Putin conversations with Trump.

Zelensky said: “We have to stop where we are…..the president is right…. I agree with the president. Both sides have to stop but with us it's about Putin - because we didn’t begin this war.”

Russia, meanwhile, faced a giant mystery explosion in Avangard military-linked plant in Russia's Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan region, killing three and wounding nine. The factory produces explosives and ammunition, and the detonation is a significant blow to the Russian war effort.

There was no evidence of a Ukrainian drone strike and a major criminal probe is underway to establish the cause, amid evidently fears of sabotage. It follows an early mystery explosion at another Sterlitamak plant in August, wounding 36, when workers “fled like cockroaches” to escape.

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A Ukraine drone strike triggered a large explosion and power grid chaos hitting the Veshkayma 500 kV high-voltage substation in Ulyanovsk region, Russia. And Russia’s premier resort Sochi faced a second night of hell as wailing sirens signalled drone warnings.

Loud explosions were heard in the Black Sea city in Krasnodar region. Tourists and residents were ordered to take shelter in underground car parks and bomb shelters.

Yet it was one of the lightest nights of Ukrainian strikes on Russia in recent weeks. New dramatic footage also showed the moment a drone on Friday exploded in flames a giant Russian Gvardeyskoye oil depot in occupied Crimea, triggering further petrol shortages on the peninsula.