![]() USIP’S Mirna Galic explains how these moves fit into Europe’s broader strategic presence in the region, the motivation behind the deployments and China’s reaction. Europe has more clearly recognized the security challenges posed by Beijing. Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring in the South China Sea. naval presence in the region is well known, Europe’s has received much less attention - that is, until recently. And earlier this year, France deployed an amphibious ready group through the region - accompanied by the February revelation that a French nuclear attack submarine had completed passage through the South China Sea. has a highly publicized carrier strike group in the region, featuring the largest U.K. This follows the United Kingdom’s late July announcement that two of its warships would have a permanent presence in the Indo-Pacific. ![]() Russia's ministry of defence reallocated weapons and vehicles to forces in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, according to the Institute for the Study of War.A German frigate that left the country yesterday for the Indo-Pacific region will be Berlin’s first warship to cross the South China Sea in almost 20 years.Six Ukrainian drones were downed in the Kaluga region, about 90 miles (150km) south of Moscow, according to the Russian ministry of defence.Ukraine said it is investigating Russian attacks on grain infrastructure as potential war crimes.A Russian commander appeared in a video claiming at least 8,500 members of Moscow's Airborne Forces had been wounded since the war began - but the footage was taken down just hours later.Here are all the other major updates from the past 24 hours: Ukrainian sea drones also attacked a Russian navy base near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and were destroyed by warships, it said. Overnight, Russia's defence ministry claimed to have downed 10 Ukrainian drones over the annexed peninsula of Crimea - which has been targeted several times in recent weeks. Welcome back to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. "Russia likely considers them as acceptably accurate and they have much smaller warheads than cruise missiles," the ministry said. There is a chance, however, that Russia has selected the weapons in the belief they are "less likely to risk escalation than cruise missiles". The weapons have struck targets as close as 200 metres from the Romanian border, which the ministry said suggests Moscow has "evolved its risk appetite for conducting strikes near NATO territory". "It is highly likely attempting to coerce international shipping into stopping trading via the ports," it said in its latest intelligence update. The attacks on the Danube hubs have been carried out by Iranian-produced one-way attack uncrewed aerial vehicles, according to the UK's defence ministry, and are probably an attempt to halt trading. The wave of strikes began after Moscow pulled out of the key Black Sea grain deal, which had enabled goods to be exported safely and provided some protection to ports. Over the past two weeks, Russia has carried out several attacks against Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea and along the Danube River.
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