Two Russian warships were damaged after Ukraine launched an extensive assault on a Russian ship repair base in Crimea early Wednesday morning, officials said, in what appears to be Kyiv’s most ambitious strike on the port since the war began.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukrainian armed forces attacked the Sergo Ordzhonikidze shipyard in Sevastopol, which Russia uses as a repair base for its Black Sea Fleet, with 10 cruise missiles and three unmanned boats.
The ministry said its air defense forces shot down seven of the missiles and that the patrol ship Vasily Bykov destroyed all of the boats.
But Russian officials confirmed that the attack had damaged two Russian warships and left 24 people injured.
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Mikhail Razvozhaev, Russian-appointed governor of Sevastopol, the largest city in the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea that was illegally annexed by Moscow’s forces in 2014, confirmed the substantial attack.
Videos and images purportedly from the area, some posted by Razvozhaev, show a large plume of smoke and a fire raging.
Razvozhaev later said he was at the site “on the southern grounds of Sevmorzavod… As a result of the attack, according to preliminary information, 24 people were injured, with 4 in moderate condition.”
Another prominent Russian military blogger said the attack on the Sevastopol shipyard was carried out by the Ukrainian Air Force, which launched 10 Storm Shadow cruise missiles at the facility.
The Storm Shadow, jointly developed by the United Kingdom and France, is a cruise missile with stealth capabilities, and is the longest-range weapon in Kyiv’s arsenal.
The latest attack comes days after SpaceX founder Elon Musk angered Kyiv after it was revealed that he secretly ordered his engineers not to turn on his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year, foiling a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Musk that was provided to CNN.
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