Ukraine says it struck a shipyard in Russian-occupied Crimea in the port of Kerch on Saturday.
“On the evening of November 4, the Ukrainian armed forces successfully carried out strikes against the maritime and port infrastructure of the Zaliv shipyard in the temporarily occupied city of Kerch,” the Ukrainian army announced, without further details in a first time.
Since launching its counter-offensive against Moscow’s forces this summer, kyiv has intensified its attacks against the Black Sea peninsula, which Russia seized in 2014.
The governor of Crimea, Sergei Aksionov, installed by Moscow, declared that Ukraine had fired missiles at a shipyard in Kerch, ensuring that they had been shot down.
“There are no victims,” he said on social media.
Near Kerch, the Crimean bridge leading to the Russian mainland, already targeted by Ukrainian forces in the past, was briefly closed on Saturday, without explanation.
Ukrainian and Russian attacks around the Black Sea have intensified since Moscow’s withdrawal from the grain agreement which allowed the passage of civilian grain transport ships.
In September, Ukraine launched a missile attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol.
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