Ukraine claimed success in a Wednesday morning attack on the Black Sea Fleet's command post in Crimea.
The announcement is something of a rarity for Kyiv, as Ukraine's military does not often claim credit for attacks on either Crimea or inside Russia territory. The first documented instance of Kyiv admitting it carried out a strike on Crimea came on September 7.
The extent of damage to the Black Sea Fleet base is not currently known, but the announcement followed earlier reports from local media and Telegram channels of explosions in Crimea and of a strike using U.K.-supplied Storm Shadow missiles on the Black Sea Fleet's headquarters building. Attacks in the Black Sea and Crimea have increased in recent weeks, and the region remains a large talking point in the war Russian President Putin launched on Ukraine in February 2022. Putin previously invaded and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, and Ukrainian PresidentThis picture shows detonation of ammunition caused by a fire at a military training field in the Kirovsky district of Crimea on July 19, 2023.
Crimea.Realities, a regional news outlet of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, also reported on the sounds of air defense systems being used in Sevastopol.
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