Russia on Sunday scaled down the festivities honoring its navy, citing security concerns as continuing Ukrainian drone attacks posed a challenge to the Kremlin.

Authorities cancelled parades of warships in St. Petersburg, in the Kaliningrad region on the Baltic, and in the far-eastern port of Vladivostok.

Russia attacked two districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, starting in the evening of July 26, according to Serhii Lysak, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration. "Russia shelled the Nikopol district with heavy artillery,