MOSCOW: A drone was shot down over the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea on Saturday, a regional formal reported.
“The drone was shot down just over the fleet headquarters” in the city of Sevastopol, town governor Mikhail Razvojaev wrote on Telegram, blaming the try on Ukrainian forces.
“It fell on the roof and caught fire,” he reported, adding that there was no key damage or victims.
It was the 2nd assault of its form against the fleet headquarters in a lot less than a month, immediately after a drone attack on July 31 in its courtyard wounded 5 folks and led to the cancellation of prepared Fleet Working day celebrations.
It was also the most recent assault to focus on Russian armed service infrastructure in Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula that Moscow seized and annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
Also on Saturday, Konstantin Ivashchenko, appointed by professional-Russian forces as mayor of the port town of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, was the target of an assassination try, according to Russian information agencies.
An explosion rocked his automobile as it drove previous a zoo, the RIA Novosti news company quoted a law enforcement resource as saying.
Ivashchenko “was not injured,” the resource additional.
Previously Saturday, air defence devices had been activated in Evpatoria in western Crimea.
Russian forces on Thursday shot down a drone near an air foundation in Sevastopol, just two days immediately after explosions ripped through a military base and ammunition depot in Crimea.
In early August, a blast at the Saki air base killed one particular person and wounded numerous many others.
“The drone was shot down just over the fleet headquarters” in the city of Sevastopol, town governor Mikhail Razvojaev wrote on Telegram, blaming the try on Ukrainian forces.
“It fell on the roof and caught fire,” he reported, adding that there was no key damage or victims.
It was the 2nd assault of its form against the fleet headquarters in a lot less than a month, immediately after a drone attack on July 31 in its courtyard wounded 5 folks and led to the cancellation of prepared Fleet Working day celebrations.
It was also the most recent assault to focus on Russian armed service infrastructure in Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula that Moscow seized and annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
Also on Saturday, Konstantin Ivashchenko, appointed by professional-Russian forces as mayor of the port town of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, was the target of an assassination try, according to Russian information agencies.
An explosion rocked his automobile as it drove previous a zoo, the RIA Novosti news company quoted a law enforcement resource as saying.
Ivashchenko “was not injured,” the resource additional.
Previously Saturday, air defence devices had been activated in Evpatoria in western Crimea.
Russian forces on Thursday shot down a drone near an air foundation in Sevastopol, just two days immediately after explosions ripped through a military base and ammunition depot in Crimea.
In early August, a blast at the Saki air base killed one particular person and wounded numerous many others.
