Ukraine targeted a key city on the Russian-occupied Crimea Peninsula with a missile attack Saturday, a day after launching an attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
Sevastopol, Crimea’s largest city and a major Black Sea port was placed under an airstrike alert for about an hour Saturday morning as shrapnel from an intercepted Ukrainian missile landed near the pier, Russian Governor-elect Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote in the Telegram Post.
The attack also halted ferry traffic in the area, which later resumed, and came after at least nine were killed and 16 wounded in a missile attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in the city Friday, Ukraine’s intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, told Voice of America.
Budanov also claimed that Alexander Romanchuk, a Russian general in charge of forces along the war’s southeastern front, was in a “very serious condition” following the attack, although Romanchuk’s condition has not been confirmed.
Russia’s Defense Ministry initially said that Friday’s attack killed a service member at its Black Sea headquarters on Friday, but later in a statement said he was missing.
Russia attacked Sevastopol, Crimea with a missile attack Saturday, a day after targeting the Russian Black Sea Fleet Headquarters in the main city. AP
Friday’s attack consisted of a dozen strikes on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet, targeting areas where Russian personnel, military equipment, and weapons were concentrated, according to the Ukrainian military, which said that four artillery units and two anti-aircraft missile systems had been hit. .
Crimea has been a frequent target of Kyiv since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and has acted as a key hub for Moscow’s naval operations since the start of the war.
Attacks on the peninsula have intensified in recent weeks, as Ukrainian counter-offensives make slow progress in the east and south of the country.
Satellite images show smoke billowing from Russia’s Black Sea Naval Headquarters after a missile attack. via REUTERS
Meanwhile, Ukraine said Russia launched 15 Iranian-made Shadeh drones along the front lines of the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, although it said 14 were destroyed by the military.
Zaporizhzhia regional governor Yuri Malashko said over the past day, Russia had launched 86 attacks on 27 settlements in the area, many just a few miles from the fighting, killing an 82-year-old civilian.
Smoke billows over Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea.AP
Russian strikes also killed at least one person and wounded three others over the past day in neighboring Kherson province, according to Governor Oleksandr Prokudin, who said Moscow fired at least 25 shells in the city of Kherson on the Dneiper River, which marks the line between the two warring forces. .
Prokudin said the strike hit residential areas, including educational and medical buildings, prisons, as well as government stations that serve food and drinks.
Amid the series of attacks, the general leading Ukraine’s counteroffensive said his troops had broken through Russian defenses in Verbove, a village in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, adding that he believed greater success was coming soon.
Russia’s Defense Ministry initially said that Friday’s attack killed a service member at its Black Sea headquarters on Friday, but later in a statement said he was missing. AP
“On the left side [near Verbove] we had a breakthrough and we keep going further,” Oleksandr Tarnavsky told CNN on Friday, though he said the counterattack was moving slower than he had hoped.
“Not as fast as expected, not like in the movies about the Second World War,” he said. “The main thing is not to lose this initiative (that we have). And, well, not lose it in practice, with action.
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