Local authorities in Crimea say Ukraine targeted the port city of Sevastopol with a drone strike on Tuesday.
It is not immediately clear whether any damage has occurred to the city or to Moscow’s Black Sea fleet, which is based there.
“There was a drone attack,” the governor of the Russian-installed Sevastopol region, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. “Our air defense is working right now.” He said that two drones were shot down and no civilian infrastructure was damaged.
It was the latest in a series of major attacks in Crimea, which Russia illegally seized in 2014 and used as an operating base for its invasion of Ukraine. Russia holds Ukraine accountable for strikes, but Ukrainian officials maintain an official vague policy about attacks far from the battlefield.
After Russian officials accused Ukrainian forces of a drone attack on the Black Sea Fleet in October, the Kremlin temporarily suspend participation in a grain deal provide a secure Black Sea corridor for grain shipments. Since then, Russia has rejoined the agreement brokered by Turkey and the United Nations.
Although the October attack was far from the route taken by the grain ships, Russian officials said they rejoined the deal after receiving assurances from Ukraine that they would not use it. grain corridor to attack Russian ships.
During the first months of the war, two Ukrainian-made Neptune cruise missiles crashed into the hull of the Moskva, the pride of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. The April attack caused a series of explosions that ultimately sank the cruiser, killing an unspecified number of sailors.
A senior Ukrainian official admitted that the country’s military carried out a successful attack in August this past August. Saki . Air Base on the west coast of Crimea. Satellite photos taken after a series of explosions there appear to show at least eight downed warplanes.
More recently, in October, a truck bombing, apparently deployed by Ukrainian saboteurs, severely damaged The main bridge connecting Russia with Crimea.
