According to official reports, five people, including three children, were killed in a rocket attack in the port city of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia. They were killed by falling debris when Ukrainian rockets were intercepted over the city of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula, said the city’s Moscow-appointed governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev.
The number of injured has risen to 124, the Russian Ministry of Health announced on Sunday, according to the Interfax news agency. “According to preliminary information, there are 27 children among the injured, 5 of them in critical condition – the doctors are fighting for their lives,” wrote Russian children’s rights commissioner Maria Lwova-Belova on Telegram.
According to the Defense Ministry in Moscow, Ukraine fired five ATACMS missiles. Four of them were intercepted. “Another missile deviated from its course due to the actions of the air defense and exploded over the city.”
Many of the victims were said to have been on Uchkuyevka beach in the north of Sevastopol when the rocket debris fell. There are also pictures of a private house burning in the district. All medical facilities have been mobilized to care for the injured, wrote the governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvoszhayev.
The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case for terrorism following the missile strike. Criminal investigators are on site, the authority said. “Such actions will not go unanswered,” it said.
Neither the US nor Ukraine initially commented on the missile attack on Sevastopol.
Sevastopol is the main port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. The Belbek military airfield is also located in the city. Russia uses both the fleet and the airport intensively in its war against Ukraine. Therefore, Ukraine regularly attacks both facilities.
Meanwhile, according to the governor of the region of the same name, one person was killed and ten others injured in Russian attacks on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. There were attacks on civilian infrastructure, writes Oleh Synehubow on the Telegram short message service. Glide bombs were apparently used. Two teenagers were among the victims.
