(Moscow) A Ukrainian attack led to the fire early Wednesday at a shipyard in Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula annexed by Moscow, and injured 24 people, the local governor reported.
“I am on the scene of a fire on the southern site of Sevmorzavod (Sevastopol shipyard, Editor’s note). All operational services are working on site,” Russian Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvojaïev said on Telegram on Wednesday morning.
“As a result of the attack, according to initial information, a total of 24 people were injured,” Razvozhayev added.
According to the governor, the fire was the result of a “missile attack” carried out by Kyiv against Sevastopol, the home port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in annexed Crimea.
Since the launch of the offensive against Ukraine in February 2022, Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, has been regularly the target of aerial and naval drone attacks.
On August 25, Moscow, for example, claimed to have shot down 42 Ukrainian drones in Crimea, describing a massive attack against this annexed peninsula where Kyiv had said the day before it had succeeded in a rare commando operation.