“During the night, anti-aircraft defense and electronic warfare units repelled a new attack on Sevastopol”, announced this Sunday, May 7, Mikhail Razvojayev, the governor of the city. This town in Crimea, port of attack for the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, was reportedly the target of a raid by more than a dozen Ukrainian drones, which the Russian administration claimed to have repelled.
In a message on Telegram, Mikhail Razvojayev said that two of them were shot down over the sea and another fell in a forest after “losing control”. “No infrastructure in the city was damaged,” he added.
The day before, the Russian authorities had already announced that they had shot down a Ukrainian ballistic missile over Crimea, an event rarely reported.
Since the summer of 2022, the peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, has been regularly hit by drone attacks. At the end of April, one of them caused a huge fire in an oil depot in Sevastopol.
On Sunday, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region also reported an overnight shelling of a locality on the border with Ukraine, Spodariouchino, causing damage to a power line and a gas pipe.
