Crimea’s Belbek airfield was hit during a Ukrainian military operation on Wednesday, the commander of Ukraine’s air force said, while the Russian Defense Ministry said 20 missiles were shot down over Crimea and the Black Sea and debris from those missiles fell along the perimeter. a Russian military unit in the area of the city of Sevastopol, according to the news agencies France Presse and Reuters, cited by Agerpres.
Russian air defense “destroyed 17 Ukrainian missiles over the Black Sea and three more over the Crimean peninsula,” the Russian Ministry of Defense reported in Telegram. “Remains of Ukrainian rockets fell on the territory of a military unit near the city of Lyubimivka in the Republic of Crimea. The planes stationed at the air base were not damaged,” the Russian agency noted. The specified military object is located next to the Belbek military airfield.
The governor of Sevastopol, Mykhailo Razvytaev, for his part, said that the Russian army “repelled a massive attack” on the city and about ten buildings suffered minor damage from fragments of downed missiles, but no one was injured.
During this time, the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Mykola Oleschuk, published a message on Telegram in which he thanked the Ukrainian military pilots who carried out this operation, which, according to him, hit the Belbek military airfield. “Ukrainian pilots will obviously return to their bases,” the Ukrainian commander added.
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