New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- KYIV - Seventeen crew members were pulled from the Black Sea on Saturday after Ukrainian naval drones struck and sank the Yanina, a sanctioned Russian-flagged container ship with a capacity exceeding 100,000 metric tons. The ship went down roughly 130 nautical miles from Novorossiysk, in what Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom was left to publicly confirm as a complete loss.

three Russian oil refineries struck on the same day, including one in Ufa, the Ural city roughly 1,400 kilometres east of Moscow. Independent Russian media outlet ASTRA reported visible columns of black smoke rising from the Ufa facility. Names and assessed damage for the other two refineries had not been publicly confirmed by Saturday af...