- Former Ukrainian naval officer Robert Shageyev, who defected to Russia in 2014, has reportedly been killed in an explosion in Russian-annexed Crimea.
- Russia's Federal Security Service confirmed the death of a military official and announced the detention of a woman suspected of carrying out the attack.
- Local media reports say that the explosive device was hidden in a rubbish bin on Stoletovsky Prospekt and killed the official instantly.
- Mr Shageyev previously commanded Ukraine's only operational submarine before defecting during Russia's 2014 occupation of Crimea.
- Separately, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukrainian forces have recaptured 745 square kilometres of territory in the Oleksandrivka sector since January.
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