Moscow (EFE).- The Russian Navy repelled a drone attack this morning against Sevastopol, on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014 and the main base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
According to the governor of the region, Mikhail Razvozhaev. the attack was carried out by three surface drones which attempted to enter the bay but were shot down by Russian sailors.
Razvozhaev also claimed that the anti-aircraft defense shot down “an air target.”
The Sevastopol governor added that the Russian warships “suffered no damage” in the attack, in which no one was injured.
“Our armed forces confidently and calmly repulsed the attack of enemy drones on Sevastopol. The situation is under control. All operational services are ready,” Razvozhaev wrote.
Radio stations, also attacked
Soon after, Razvozhaev also reported a cyberattack against Crimean radio stations.
“Information reaches us that the radio signal was intercepted at various stations. False information is spread about the evacuation of the peninsula. All of that is naturally false,” he wrote.
According to Razvozhaev, the hacking of the stations is related to the failed drone attack.
The alleged Ukrainian attack with surface drones comes just a day after Russian-imposed authorities in Crimea denounced another attack with drones against the city of Dzhankoy, in the north of the peninsula, considered a railway junction from which Russia supplies weapons. to the provinces of Kherson and Zaporizhia.
In the military campaign that Putin ordered to start on February 24, 2022, Russia has managed to create a land corridor between Donbas, in eastern Ukraine, and Crimea, in the south, which needs hydrological, energy and farms of southern Ukraine.
With the illegal annexation last September of the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donets, Zaporizhia and Kherson, Russia turned the Azov into an inland sea, which, in principle, guarantees the security of Crimea, although in the last thirteen months, Crimea has been the target of several attacks attributed to Ukraine.
Three dead in kyiv
Hours before, it was the Russian troops that launched their drones on kyiv.
According to the Military Administration of the Ukrainian capital, three people have died and another seven have been injured as a result of a drone attack launched last night by Russia.
This same authority had previously announced that all the Iranian-made Shahid-136 drones launched by Russian forces over the Ukrainian capital had been intercepted by anti-aircraft defenses, which suggests that the deaths occurred when the intercepted aircraft fell.
A civil infrastructure was also reportedly damaged in which a fire controlled by firefighters broke out “at 5:50” in the morning, local time (3:50 GMT).
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have reported that Russia launched 21 drones against kyiv and other Ukrainian regions, of which 16 were shot down by anti-aircraft systems.
