On the night of June 21, Ukrainian drones attacked the Panagia ferry at the Kerch crossing, killing one person and wounding another, the Krasnodar Territory Operations Headquarters reported.
The Operations Headquarters reported that ferry transportation via the Kerch crossing had been temporarily halted, and recommended drivers of heavy vehicles to use the P-280 highway via Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Mariupol, Melitopol and Simferopol.
As a result of the drone attack, an oil terminal also caught fire in the village of Chushka in the Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory. In addition, drone debris fell in two other areas, damaging residential buildings – in the village of Vastovitskaya, Tikhoretsk region, and in the village of Uspenskaya, Beloglinsky district. The operations headquarters stated that there were no casualties.
Ukrainian drones also attacked the Kerch Peninsula (this is the eastern part of Crimea), and there were dead and wounded. According to the Russian-appointed head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, the attack killed four people and injured 28 others. He did not provide any other details.
Ukrainian telegram channels wrote that the port of Kavkaz, which is located on the Russian coast, and the sea port of Kerch were attacked. From the site of the fire in Kerch to the Crimean Bridge, as indicated by monitoring channels, less than one kilometer. Telegram channel Astra, which studied the images, He writesA multi-storey residential building in Kerch was damaged after the attack.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the air defense forces destroyed 239 Ukrainian drones overnight over eight Russian regions in southern and central Russia and over the occupied Crimean Peninsula.