Governor: Three dead and dozens injured in Ukrainian missile attack on Crimea

A Ukrainian missile attack on Sevastopol on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula on Sunday killed three people, including two children, and injured nearly 100, the city’s Moscow-appointed governor said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Ukraine used weapons from the United States in the attack and accused Ukraine of using cluster munitions.

Sevastopol, a Black Sea port city and naval base annexed by Russia in 2014, regularly comes under fire from Ukraine, but Sunday’s attack was unusually deadly.

Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram that two children and one adult had died.

“The number of injured has risen to almost 100 people,” he added.

The governor said Ukraine fired five missiles that were intercepted by Russian air defenses over the sea, but fragments fell on the coast and injured people with shrapnel.

Razvozhayev said rocket fragments hit beach areas north of the city and set fire to a house and a forest area.

A statement from the Russian Defense Ministry said Ukraine had “carried out a terrorist attack on the civilian infrastructure of Sevastopol using US-made ATACMS tactical missiles equipped with cluster warheads.”

The ministry said four missiles were fired and a fifth changed its trajectory after being intercepted, “exploding its warhead in mid-air over the city.”

A local news channel on Telegram, ChP Sevastopol, quoted witnesses saying that an elderly woman died while swimming in the sea.

Earlier, a drone strike fired from Ukraine on the southern Russian region of Belgorod killed one man, the governor said.

Three Ukrainian combat drones attacked the town of Graivoron near the border with Ukraine, said Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. One of them hit a parking lot near a multi-story apartment block.

“One peaceful civilian was killed. The man succumbed to his injuries on the spot,” and three people were injured, Gladkov wrote on Telegram.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on supporting countries in a social media post on Sunday to help Ukraine intensify its attacks on Russian soil.

“We are determined enough to destroy terrorists on their territory – it is only fair – and we need the same determination from our partners. We can stop Russia,” Zelensky wrote.