It has been a year of setbacks for Moscow's Black Sea Fleet, which is now planning a fresh winter bombardment of Ukraine.

A majority of Russians still support Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, according to a poll from Russia. Some 76 per cent of respondents said they backed the invasion, while 21 per cent thought it was going poorly.

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been forced back to base after “the storm of the century” hit southern Ukraine and occupied Crimea. No Russian ships are able to operate on the Black Sea and the Azov Sea because of the blizzards,

Fierce storms killed three people on the Russian and Crimean Black Sea coast on Monday, with hundreds evacuated. State news agency TASS reported that one person had been killed in the resort city of Sochi,

A storm walloped southern Ukraine on Monday inhibiting military operations on both sides and possibly worsening already-heightened dangers in the Black Sea.

The storm is part of a weather front that hit Romania and Moldova, leaving one person dead and hundreds of places without electricity.

Fierce storms killed three people on the Russian and Crimean Black Sea coast on Monday, with hundreds evacuated.