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Russia thwarted an attack by 20 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow-annexed Crimea overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday.

Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's military intelligence service, announced that last night's explosion at the ammunition depot was an operation by Ukrainian special forces.
The explosion occurred at a Russian military base in Crimea.

The military channel "Zvezda" released a video of the arrest of a Bulgarian with Ukrainian citizenship, who was detained yesterday in Russia by anti-terrorists. The video shows a man being handcuffed in front of a silver Volkswagen van with a registration number from Plovdiv. You can hear how the man wants to put on some pants first.

SNP party leader Nenad Popovic and "several Serbian businesspeople" have been invited to an economic forum in Yalta next month.

Leader of Crimea Republic Serge Aksyonov announced this on Facebook, a week after his meeting with Popovic.

Russia and Turkey may give preferential treatment to some sectors of their economies, the Russian Minister for Economic Development Alexei Ulyukayev has said.

First parliamentary elections begin in Crimea after its annexation by Russia, and all polling stations are open, acting head of the republic, Sergei Aksyonov, said Sunday.

"All the stations are 100 per cent open, safety is fully secured. Commissions are working as scheduled," Aksyonov told journalists, as quoted by RIA novosti.

The Crimean Peninsula could become a gambling zone, after Russian President Putin introduced Monday a bill into Parliament.

Ukraine’s breakaway region of Crimea will fully switch to the Russian ruble within the next 2-3 weeks.

“The (Ukrainian) hryvnia circulation deadline should be cut as much as possible. We will try to refuse hryvnia payments in 2-3 weeks”, Crimean Prime Minister Sergey Aksyonov said on Friday, quoted by ITAR-TASS.