Night attack on occupied Sevastopol damages 2 Russian ships

According to the Russian defence ministry and the Russian head of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, the ships standing under repair in the ship repair yard were attacked with cruise missiles. In addition, Russian authorities claim that a detachment of Russian Black Sea Fleet ships on a sea crossing was also attacked by naval drones. The Russian-controlled head of Sevastopol blamed the attack on the AFU.

According to Russian defence officials, ten cruise missiles were used for the attack, as well as three surface drones. As a result of the attack on Sevastopol, Sevmorzavod, the main repair base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, caught fire. The fire has been assigned a class 4 rating.

A local Telegram channel published a video of eyewitnesses.

And footage of the Sevmorzavod burning.

Together with the explosions on the peninsula, the occupation "authorities" reportedly blocked traffic on the Crimean bridge, and the explosions were visible from Balaklava.

Sevastopol residents reported that some flats near the centre of the blast "blew out windows"

Entrance doors were "walking around" even on Victory Avenue and Gorpischenko Street, which are several kilometres away from the "epicentre" of the events.

Preliminarily, 2 people were killed and 26 injured as a result of the missile attack on warships in the docks of Sevmorzavod.

All the dead and injured were employees of the plant.

Two ships were damaged: the diesel-electric submarine Rostov-on-Don, which the Russians used to shell Ukraine. And a large landing ship "Minsk", they caught fire. Both vessels were under repair in a dry dock.

Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk has hinted that the night attack on Sevastopol was carried out from aircraft.

And while the occupiers are "stormy" and they are still recovering from the night clap in Sevastopol, I will thank the pilots of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the excellent combat work! Further will be..., - wrote Oleshchuk.