(Kyiv) Russian bombings injured eight people on Tuesday in the Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Kharkiv, with Russia claiming to have neutralized three Ukrainian naval drones in the Black Sea.
Four people, including a 12-year-old child, were injured during a bombardment with “incendiary munitions” in the village of Bilozerka, east of the city of Kherson, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense said on Telegram. ‘Interior, Igor Klymenko.
“Twenty houses, a gas network and several cars and commercial buildings were damaged,” he added.
In the Kharkiv region, four people were also injured and hospitalized during a strike on the village of Borova, according to the minister.
Finally, the Air Force indicated that it had shot down six Shahed-type explosive drones launched from Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, during the night.
For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense indicated in a press release that it had neutralized three Ukrainian naval drones in the Black Sea, which appear to have targeted the bay of Sevastopol, in annexed Crimea.
On Tuesday, “around 4 a.m. local time (9 p.m. Eastern time), three unmanned Ukrainian army launches were detected in the northern part of the Black Sea,”
“A strike with anti-diversion missile systems was carried out against the detection zone” of these naval drones, he added, without further details.
Anti-diversion measures and those aimed at detecting mines were underway in the Bay of Sevastopol, home port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, following this incident, according to the same source.
Attacks using naval or aerial drones are common off Ukraine and have intensified since Russia withdrew in July from a deal allowing Ukrainian grain exports.
At the beginning of September, Moscow claimed to have foiled an attack of this type which targeted the bridge which connects Russia to Crimea, a construction already damaged twice and which is essential to the supply of the Russian forces occupying the south and the is from Ukraine.
Also in September, Ukrainian missile attacks against a shipyard in Sevastopol damaged two boats undergoing repairs, according to Russian authorities. And a Ukrainian missile attack ravaged the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol in Crimea.