The Russian-controlled Crimean peninsula in Ukraine was the target of a drone strike on Tuesday, with Russian forces there “on high alert”, officials based in the Kremlin said.
“There is a drone attack,” the governor of the Moscow-installed Sevastopol administrative region in Crimea, Mikhail Razvojayev, said on Telegram. “Our air defense forces are working right now.”
A call for calm
He said two drones “had already been shot down.” Mikhail Razvozhayev added that no civilian infrastructure had been damaged and called on residents to “remain calm.”
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet based in the Crimean port of Sevastopol came under attack in what authorities called a “massive” drone strike.
The attack, which damaged at least one of its ships, prompted Moscow to briefly withdraw from the historic grain deal in Ukraine.
Source: BFM TV
