Kyiv launched a missile strike on Sevastopol and the Russian air defense shot down 5 missiles, the ministry said.
“As a result of the attack, the historic building of the Black Sea Fleet headquarters was damaged. According to the available information, one military was killed,” the ministry said.
Earlier on Friday, Mikhail Razvozhaev said that the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol came under a missile attack.
Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev has announced the end of the missile and aviation threat in Sevastopol but asked citizens to refrain from traveling to the center of the city.
The roads are blocked there and “a number of special events are taking place”, according to him.
He added that work continues to extinguish the fire at the Black Sea Fleet headquarters and that “there are enough workforce and resources.”
“Please remain calm. The situation is under control of emergency services. According to preliminary information, the civilian infrastructure around the fleet headquarters has not been damaged. The people who were on the street at the time of the missile strike have not been injured either,” Razvozhaev stressed.
He also said that Acting Deputy Governor Yevgeny Gorlov, Acting Director of Public Security Department Alexey Krasnokutsky and head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexey Rokhlin work at an operational headquarters deployed on the spot.
Additionally, Razvozhaev cited the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) as saying that during a missile attack on Sevastopol, the historical building of the Black Sea Fleet headquarters had been damaged, and one Russian serviceman had been missing. According to the MoD, the Russian air defenses downed at least five missiles during the attack.
This came after he said that a missile hit the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters in Sevastopol, and that information about the victims is being clarified.
“The enemy launched a missile attack on the fleet headquarters. A fragment fell near the Lunacharsky Theater… All operational services went to the incident scene.
Information about the victims is being clarified. Please remain calm. And do not post photos and videos,” Razvozhaev said on Telegram. He warned of a possible new attack on the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters.
The Russian air defense systems were reported to be in operation on the Сrimean Peninsula, as the movement of cars on the Crimean bridge was temporarily suspended.
The center of the city was in smoke, and air-raid siren was heard shortly after the missile strikes, according to Sputnik.
The developments come after the Russian MoD said that at about 10:30 local time the air defenses destroyed a Ukrainian guided missile and two aircraft-type drones off the west coast of Crimea. Two drones were also shot down on the night of September 22, according to the MoD.
Ukraine has been sending drones into the Russian territory almost daily since it launched a counteroffensive in early June. About three months later, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Ukrainian counteroffensive had failed, with Ukraine losing over 71,000 casualties and more than 500 tanks.
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