Ukrainian Spokesperson: Russia has Pulled All Vessels from Sea of Azov

A spokesperson for Ukraine's navy said on Wednesday that Russia had pulled all its vessels out of the Sea of Azov, a body of water connected to the Black Sea.

"There are no longer any Russian naval vessels in the Sea of Azov," the spokesperson, Dmytro Pletenchuk, wrote on Facebook.

Ukrainian naval officials have said in recent months that successful attacks on targets in Russian-annexed Crimea and elsewhere in the Black Sea had forced the Russian navy to rebase its ships elsewhere.

(Reuters - Reporting by Ron Popeski and Oleksander Kozhukhar; Editing by Leslie Adler)