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Ukrainian drones carried out a large-scale attack on Sevastopol tonight. how Confirms As a result, three Russian warships were damaged by the Ukrainian Security Service.
According to the intelligence service, the drones damaged the two large landing ships Yamal and Filchenkov, as well as the reconnaissance ship Ivan Khors. The Ukrainian Security Service published photos taken by drones before the strikes, but the extent of the damage is not clear.
According to the Ukrainian Security Service, Belbek Airport and the MiG-31 aircraft stationed at the airport were also damaged; Training center “Lukomka” and headquarters of radio intelligence of the Air Defense Forces.
There is also no independent confirmation of the consequences of the attack.
The Russian-appointed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said in the morning that at night “one of the largest raids” on Sevastopol since the beginning of the war had been carried out. According to Razvozaev, the Ukrainian army sent about a hundred drones to the Crimean region.
According to Razvozaev, one person was killed and four others were injured as a result of the attack. More than 50 private buildings and apartments were damaged, most with broken windows. In Sevastopol, the movement of electric trains was temporarily suspended.
Razvozaev did not clarify the purpose of the raid, nor did he confirm the damage to ships in the Sevastopol Bay. The Russian Ministry of Defense also did not comment on the situation.
After the raid, the governor of the annexed city also called on residents to join mobile firefighting groups so that they, along with the air defense forces and the Black Sea Fleet, could help defend the city from Ukrainian attacks.
On April 18, during the previous major assault on Sevastopol, the Ukrainian Security Service also reported that drones had damaged three Russian ships – including, according to the Intelligence Service, He was Yamal and Filchenkov. Then the State Security Service claimed that they were disabled. Russian-appointed authorities on the peninsula then announced that they had shot down 22 drones, but did not report the consequences.
how Reports Radio Liberty satellite images of the port of Sevastopol showed that after the attack on April 18, a strong fire broke out there, in which two fuel tanks burned completely.
War in pictures. Slavyansk, Donetsk region
War through the eyes of Medusa readers
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Maxim (Moscow). I am a Russian citizen. I was born in Moscow 45 years ago, and will probably continue to live here for the rest of my life, despite my sincere desire not to. I’m a normal person. I do not belong to show business or to any national, cultural or sexual minority. I have no education or special professional skills that would help me get a job in Europe or the USA, but at the same time I suffer from many chronic diseases, some of which in Russia are included in the list of so-called rare diseases (orphans) for which my country continues to receive assistance from abroad in the form of expensive medicines, despite all the sanctions.
To everyone who wrote letters to this section, who read them, who posted them, who was afraid to do this and that, who was afraid, who is afraid now, who feels completely hopeless, wherever you are today and tomorrow, whether you are Ukrainian or Russian, I say – you are. Can you hear him? Do you understand this? You! Nothing can cancel you!
War is completely immoral and has no political, cultural, historical or any justification at all, even if everyone around you thinks differently. I don’t know how it happened that my peers, with whom I grew up in the same country and in the same culture, suddenly chose “We could do that again” instead of “If there had been no war.” I can guess something, but after a while, their logic is simply not interesting to me.
I am a smart, kind, funny, curious, interesting person. I will always love this in myself and in others, no matter what happens to us. After the first six months of the war, which I spent in panic attacks and desperately drunk, I realized that I would never consent if weak people were insulted, a woman was raped, a child was humiliated, or an animal was tortured. This is the simple interior solution! I will never distinguish between black and white, which means I will never live in the fear and hatred they spread among us.
I want to say – if you feel bad now, you are okay. This is what it means to be an ordinary person in abnormal circumstances. If you are alone, we will meet one day, and we will recognize each other in the crowd by our gaze, by our silence, by our facial expressions, and by our reluctance to hurt others. This is a dark time when you have the opportunity to be a light in this world.