2023-10-04 08:43:01
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 1 hour ago, Updated 34 minutes ago
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, a device “stopped an attempt to penetrate the territory of Crimea by a landing group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP
According to Russia, the Ukrainian soldiers were heading towards northwest Crimea, aboard a “fast military boat and three jet skis.”
Russia shot down 31 Ukrainian drones on its territory and repelled a landing attempt by kyiv in the annexed Crimean peninsula, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday (October 3). “Air defense systems in service over the territory of the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions (bordering Ukraine, editor’s note) intercepted and destroyed» these drones, the ministry said on Telegram. There was no mention of possible injuries or damage.
The governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, said earlier that a drone had been destroyed there by Russian forces, without causing any injuries or damage. According to Alexandre Bogomaz, kyiv also used cluster munitions against four districts in its region, causing “partial destruction» on housing and outbuildings.
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Ukrainian landing attempt repulsed, Russians say
Since Ukraine launched its counter-offensive at the beginning of June, Russian regions have accused Ukrainian forces almost every day of launching attacks, with drones or shells, against civilian targets.
The Russian Defense Ministry also reported on Wednesday that it had repelled an attempted landing of Ukrainian forces on the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014.In the north-western part of the Black Sea, the actions of an aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces ended an attempt to penetrate the territory of Crimea by a landing group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine», the ministry said.
These soldiers were heading towards Cape Tarkhankout, in the northwest of the peninsula, aboard a “fast military boat and three jet skis“. Moscow said several times this summer that it had destroyed Ukrainian military boats in the Black Sea that were sailing towards Crimea.
Several Ukrainian attacks in Crimea
On September 10, three boats carrying Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed in the western part of the Black Sea by Russian fleet aircraft, according to Russian Defense. In August, Ukraine congratulated itself on having carried out a rare commando operation on the peninsula and having raised the national flag there before leaving “without losses».
At the end of September, kyiv also struck the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea, claiming to have killed around thirty officers there. Russia, which almost never gives information on its military losses, for its part only gave a report of one person missing following the bombing.
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