Russian warships on Wednesday night launched missiles and artillery at the Ukrainian sea coast near Tuzla, a village to the south of Odesa, a top Ukrainian official said. “They fired a huge amount of ammunition from a great distance,” Anton Gerashchenko, a former deputy minister at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, confirmed in a statement on Facebook. Gerashchenko said that he believes Russia wanted to test Ukraine’s coastal defense system, adding that there was no attempt to land paratroops. He didn’t clarify whether any of the shelling hit anything. More than 950 missiles were fired since Russian forces started their attack on the former Soviet nation about three weeks ago, up from an estimated 900 on Monday, a senior U.S. Defense Department (USDOD) official said on Tuesday, adding that both Russia and Ukraine still retain about 90 percent of their combat power. As airstrikes continue, the United States has seen indications …