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03/03/2024 March 3, 2024 Russia says 38 Ukrainian drones shot down over Crimea
Russia said early Sunday that a drone strike involving multiple UAV’s was intercepted over Crimea.
The Russian defence ministry said in a post on the Telegram messaging service that air defense systems shot down 38 drones it said had been launched by Kyiv, over occupied Crimea.
It didn’t say whether there had been any damage or casualties.
There had been posts on Ukrainian and Russian social media of explosions in the port of Feodosia.
Russia, which annexed Crimea in 2014, fortified the peninsula in the years that followed, setting up several additional naval and air bases in the area where its Black Sea fleet has long been based.
That fleet has used its HQ in the closed port city of Sevastopol to launch long-range attacks on targets in Ukraine since the 2022 invasion.
Kyiv has increased air and sea attacks on Russian targets in the region, hitting Russian ships and naval facilities among others.
Source: www.dw.com
