KYIV, (Reuters)
Ukraine said Thursday its air force carried out a strike against a Moscow command post near the occupied city of Sevastopol and a separate raid against a Russian military unit in the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Via Telegram messaging, the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force relayed a video posted on social networks showing smoke spreading in the sky after an explosion near Sevastopol, a Crimean port city where Russia has installed the main command center for its fleet in the Black Sea.
“Thank you again to the air force pilots and everyone who planned this operation (…),” wrote Mykola Oletchouk.
He also posted a screenshot of a message on social media that a Russian military base in the town of Yevpatoria was hit by a strike.
The Moscow-appointed governor of Sevastopol described the attack as “the largest recently.” One person was hospitalized after his house was hit by debris, Mikhail Razvozhayev said via Telegram messaging.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the Russian army foiled a Ukrainian attack by destroying ten missiles over Crimea.
Kyiv has intensified its attacks on the peninsula, with the aim of diminishing Moscow’s military capabilities and forcing it to withdraw its fleet from the Black Sea. (Reporting Yuliia Dysa, Mark Trevelyan, Alexander Marrow; French version Jean Terzian, editing by Zhifan Liu)
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