THE Russian military said a Ukrainian missile strike on a shipyard in annexed Crimea had damaged a Russian ship, according to The Associated Press.
The Russian Defence Ministry said late Saturday that Ukrainian forces fired 15 cruise missiles at the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch, a city in the east of the Crimean Peninsula. Air defenses shot down thirteen missiles, but others hit the shipyard and damaged a vessel, a statement from the ministry said.
The ministry didn't give details about the ship or the extent of the damage.
The Ukrainian air force commander, Mykola Oleshchuk, said in a statement that at the time of the attack carried out by Ukrainian tactical aviation, "one of the most modern ships of Russia's Black Sea fleet was at the shipyard - carrier of the Kalibr cruise missiles". He didn't say directly, however, that this particular ship was damaged by the strike.
Ukraine has increasingly targeted naval facilities in Crimea in recent months. In September, a Ukrainian missile strike on a strategic shipyard in the port city of Sevastopol damaged two Russian ships and wounded twenty-four people. Later that same month, a missile strike blasted the Crimean headquarters of Russia's navy in Sevastopol.
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Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military said a Russian missile strike killed troops and injured civilians in the Zaporizhzhia area late Friday. Details about the attack, reportedly carried out by an Iskander ballistic missile, have not been made public.
A deadly missile strike on a Ukrainian village on October 5 killed 59 civilians attending the wake for a local soldier who died fighting Russian troops. |
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