In the attacks, the planes targeted, among other things, targets in the relatively peaceful region of Lviv in the far west of the country, reports the French news agency AFP.

In a post on the online Telegram network, the Ukrainian forces announced that the air defense shot down 11 out of 16 Iranian-made Shahed-136 and Shahed-131 aircraft.

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the Russian military launched the attacks from the Sea of ​​Azov and from the western Russian region of Bryansk.

So far, there are no reports of possible victims of the attacks, but one aircraft is said to have hit critical infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Several houses were destroyed and damaged in the fire that then broke out.

The planes also unsuccessfully attacked Kiev, the authorities in the Ukrainian capital announced.

Putin visited Crimea on the 9th anniversary of annexation

Russian President Vladimir Putin meanwhile, on the ninth anniversary of the unilateral annexation, he visited the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.

During an unannounced visit to the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, he visited an art school, accompanied by the Russian governor of the peninsula Mihail Razvozhaevthe coverage of Russian state television is summarized by the German news agency dpa.

Razvozhaev said on the Telegram social network that Putin was not expected, but with the visit “positively surprised” and emphasized that the Russian president is always with the people of Sevastopol.

On this day in 2014, Putin formally signed an agreement on the annexation of this Ukrainian territory, which is not recognized by the international community.

Biden: The ICC warrant is justified

Meanwhile, the president of the United States Joe Biden responded to the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for the Russian president Vladimir Putin. He marked her as justified.

In a conversation with reporters at the White House, he highlighted the strong message value of such an act, while pointing out that the US does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC.

Biden said it was clear that the Russian president had committed war crimes in Ukraine, the French news agency AFP reported.

On Friday, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin on suspicion of being responsible for the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories. The court also issued an arrest warrant for Maria Lvova-BelovaRussian President’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights.

Otherwise, the ICC cannot act against the Russian leadership, including President Putin, because, like the United States, neither Russia nor Ukraine are signatories to the Rome Statute, which is the court’s legal basis.

Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump signed an executive order in mid-2020 authorizing the imposition of sanctions against ICC officials involved in the investigation into possible war crimes by US soldiers and intelligence agents in Afghanistan.

The US Secretary of State at the time, Mike Pompeo, attacked the ICC for investigating American war crimes, which he described as “the so-called court”which has revealed itself as a naked body politic by attempting to prosecute Americans.