The Russian government in annexed Crimea said on Sunday it had averted an overnight attack by a dozen Ukrainian drones on Sevastopol.
“During the night, air defense units repelled another attack on Sevastopol,” the home port of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, said the governor of the administrative region of Sevastopol in Crimea, Mikhail Razvojayev.
So said Mikhail Razvojayev in a message published on Telegram Ukraine launched “more than a dozen drones”, two of which were shot down over the sea and another fell into a forest after losing control.
“No infrastructure in the city has been damaged,” he added.
The day before, Russian authorities announced that they had shot down a Ukrainian ballistic missile over Crimea, an event rarely reported.
The military offensive launched by Russia in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 has so far led to the flight of more than 14.6 million people – 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 8.1 million to European countries -, according to the latest data from the UN. which classifies this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945).
At least 18 million Ukrainians need humanitarian aid and 9.3 million need food aid and shelter.
The Russian invasion – justified by Putin with the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions. put to Russia.
The UN presented 8,709 civilian deaths and 14,666 wounded as confirmed since the start of the war, underlining that these numbers are well below the real ones.
Source: DN
