KYIV (Reuters) – Russian air defence systems shot down more than 10 missiles over the Crimean port of Sevastopol late on Saturday, a Russian-installed official said, forcing transport disruptions on the peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine.
“Our military is repelling a massive attack on Sevastopol,” Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russia-installed governor of Sevastopol, said on the Telegram messaging app.
Preliminary information showed more than 10 missiles had been shot down, he added. One woman suffered a shrapnel injury and infrastructure was damaged, including an office building and a gas line, he added.
Sea and road transport linking Russia’s mainland with the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014 from Ukraine, was suspended for several hours, the Moscow-installed transport administration of the region said.
(Reporting by Nick Starkov in Kyiv and Elaine Monaghan in Washington; Writing by Elaine Monaghan and Lidia Kelly; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Lincoln Feast)
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