Russia says it shot down three Ukrainian missiles targeting Crimea

Russian forces claim to have shot down three Ukrainian missiles on Sunday October 22 targeting Crimea, a peninsula annexed in 2014 by Moscow and regularly targeted by strikes by Kiev forces. “Three enemy missiles aimed at Crimea were shot down” in the Kherson region late in the afternoon, Vladimir Saldo, installed by Moscow as head of this area of ​​southern Ukraine, said on Telegram. For their part, Ukrainian forces assured on Sunday that they had destroyed a guided missile and three drones launched by Russian forces.

Earlier, an air alert was given by the Crimean authorities, and traffic on the Crimean Bridge, which connects this peninsula to the Russian mainland, was temporarily interrupted. The peninsula is at the heart of Russia’s military posture for its offensive in Ukraine, both to supply troops in southern Ukraine and to carry out missile strikes from the sea.

kyiv has been seeking for several weeks to bring the fight to this strategic zone for Russia. The Ukrainian armed forces want to both disrupt the Russian supply chain and end Russia’s military control over the Black Sea. At the end of September, Ukraine carried out a major strike on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, during which it claimed to have killed around thirty officers. Russia reported only one soldier missing after the attack which heavily damaged the building.