Kiev. Russia's Defense Ministry claimed on Friday that its northern army captured 12 settlements in Ukraine's Kharkiv region last week. Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin said in China that Russia has no plans to capture Kharkiv, it only wants to create a buffer zone there.Putin's remarks came after Ukraine's drone attack on Crimea in the early hours of Friday. Russian President Putin made the above remarks at a press conference in Harbin, China on Friday. The new front that opened in Kharkiv on May 10 has displaced thousands of Ukrainians in just a few days. Putin told reporters that Russia's shelling of Kharkiv was started after Ukraine's shelling of the Belgorod region. We want to prevent an attack by Ukraine with this. We do not plan to take control of Kharkiv at the moment.However, our troops are moving ahead as planned. Earlier, Ukraine responded to Russia by launching a major drone attack on Crimea. This attack, which took place in the early hours of Friday, caused a massive power outage in the city of Sevastopol. Along with this, a refinery in southern Russia also caught fire. More than 100 drones were used in the attack, which Russia claimed to have shot down.

At the same time, Russia also attacked Kharkiv with guided bombs, killing two people and injuring 13 others. Along with this, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Russian fighter planes and patrolling boats also shot down six marine drones in the Black Sea.

Sevastopol governor said - electricity will be restored one day

Mikhail Razvozhayev, the governor of Sevastopol, the main base of Russia's Black Sea naval fleet, said the Ukrainian drone attack caused a power outage in the city. He hoped that power supply could be fully restored after a day. Along with this, schools have also been temporarily closed. A satellite image showed that the Ukrainian attack damaged aircraft and fuel storage facilities at the Belbek air base near Sevastopol.