KYIV, Ukraine — A drone-borne explosive machine detonated Sunday on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, injuring six individuals, officers stated.
The explosion on the headquarters within the metropolis of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 triggered cancellation of observances of Russia’s Navy Day vacation.
The Black Sea Fleet’s press service stated the drone gave the impression to be home made. It described the explosive machine as “low-power” however Sevastopol mayor Mikhail Razvozhaev stated six individuals have been injured within the blast.
There was no quick info on the place the drone started its flight; Sevastopol is about 170 kilometers (100 miles) south of the Ukrainian mainland and Russian forces management a lot of the mainland space alongside the Black Sea.
Preventing continued elsewhere in Ukraine. The mayor of the main port metropolis of Mykolaiv, Vitaliy Kim, stated shelling killed one in every of Ukraine’s richest males, Oleksiy Vadatursky, and his spouse. Vadatursky headed a grain manufacturing and export enterprise.
Within the Sumy area in Ukraine’s north, close to the Russian border, shelling killed one particular person, the regional administration stated.
Three individuals died in assaults over the previous day within the Donetsk area, which is partly beneath the management of Russian separatist forces, stated governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stated Sunday on Twitter that pictures of a jail the place no less than 53 Ukrainian prisoners of battle died in an explosion on Friday indicated that the blast got here from throughout the constructing in Olenivka, which is beneath Russian management.
Russian officers have claimed the constructing was attacked by Ukraine with the goal of silencing POWs who is likely to be giving details about Ukrainian navy operations.
Satellite tv for pc photographs taken earlier than and after the assault present {that a} small, squarish constructing in the midst of the Olenivka jail advanced was demolished, its roof in splinters.
Podolyak stated these pictures and the dearth of harm to adjoining buildings confirmed that the constructing was not attacked from the air or by artillery and contended the proof was in line with a hyperbaric bomb set off inside.
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