Grant Shapps: Ukraine inflicts heavy losses on the Russian fleet

Grant Shapps, Britain's Secretary of State for Defence, said that "another defeat by Vladimir Putin's navy shows that those who think the war in Ukraine is at a stalemate are wrong!", the Guardian reported.

"They don't notice that in the last four months, 20% of the Russian Black Sea fleet has been destroyed," he added.

Russia's dominance in the Black Sea has been called into question after a new naval coalition led by the UK and Norway helped Ukraine gain a naval advantage. /BGNES