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The sternwheel towboat Standard has had several different names—Donald B, Barbara H and again Standard—in its 100-plus year career.

The storm, called one of the region's most intense in decades, snarled supply routes for armies and deepened the misery of tens of thousands of soldiers huddled in shallow trenches across the sprawling front lines.

KYIV, Ukraine — A powerful winter storm battered southern Ukraine on Monday, washing away Russian coastal defenses from some beaches on the occupied Crimean Peninsula. The storm, which Ukrainian meteorologists said was among the most intense in decades, snarled supply routes for both countries’ armies and deepened the misery of tens of thousands of soldiers huddled in shallow trenches across the sprawling front line.

Violent waves stirred by hurricane-force winds threatened to tear maritime mines from their moorings in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.

The Russian tanker SIG, attacked by an unmanned surface vessel (USV) in the Kerch Strait, has suffered a breach in the engine room. Source: Kremlin-aligned news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS Details: The Russian Maritime Rescue and Coordination Centre told RIA Novosti that the Russian tanker attacked by a USV drone near Crimea had a hole in it, but there was no threat of the vessel sinking.