News - Middle East: Russia says it has repelled a mass attack by Ukrainian high-speed marine drones on its aircraft carrier that was guarding gas pipelines in the Black Sea. 

The Russian defense ministry said in a statement on Sunday, "Ukraine's armed forces made an unsuccessful attempt to attack The Black Sea Fleet's Priazovye ship."
The warship was monitoring "the situation and ensuring security along the routes of the TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipelines in the southeastern part of the Black Sea," the ministry said. 
The battleship continues to perform its tasks, it added.
The Priazovye, according to Russian sources, is armed with two automatic naval, AK-306 rotary cannons and surface-to-air missile launchers.
According to the ministry, a remotely piloted US military aircraft, known as the RQ-4 Global Hawk, was conducting reconnaissance in the Black Sea at the time of the attack.
German-made Leopard tanks, US Bradley vehicles targeted 
In a separate statement, the ministry said its forces had destroyed at least seven German-made Leopard tanks and five US-made Bradley vehicles over 48 hours while repelling Ukrainian attacks.
The military destroyed a column of armored vehicles of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade in the Zaporizhzhia region, it said.
"During the past day, the armed forces of Ukraine continued unsuccessful attempts of offensive actions in the Donetsk, southern Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia directions," it said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that his military was engaged in "counter-offensive and defensive operations."
His forces also claimed they have advanced by about a mile at some parts of the front line in the area on Saturday.
The Russian defense ministry, however, said later in the day that Ukraine's forces launched attacks in the south of Donetsk and in Zaporizhzhia regions, as well as in the area of the eastern city of Bakhmut, but their attempts failed to recapture any territory.