The commander leading Ukraine’s drone war says his country’s recent strikes in Crimea are the first phase of a campaign aimed at rendering the peninsula — illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 — unusable as a staging ground for Russian forces.

Ukraine hammered Russia's Black Sea ⁠port city of Novorossiysk in a massive overnight drone attack which put two ​major grain terminals out of action, according to Russian industry sources, and which Kyiv said had targeted a naval base there.