Ukrainian missile strike on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters leaves one MIA
One Russian serviceman went missing following a missile strike on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in annexed Crimea on Friday, the Defence Ministry said in a statement, adding that air defence had intercepted five of the Ukrainian missiles used in the strike.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces went on to claim responsibility for the attack, stating that the Ukrainian army had “carried out a successful strike on the command headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet located in temporarily occupied Sevastopol”.
The Russian-installed governor of the city of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, earlier reported that a building had caught fire in the attack, but hadn’t mentioned any fatalities. Russian Telegram channel 112 initially reported that six people had been injured.
Razvozhayev warned local residents that “another attack” might take place shortly, urging people to stay at home and to avoid the centre of Sevastopol. Anyone close to the Black Sea Fleet headquarters was asked to take refuge in shelters upon hearing air-raid sirens.
Russian air defence systems shot down two Ukrainian drones overnight, one off the south-eastern coast of annexed Crimea and one over Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday morning.
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