Russian air defense opened fire and shot down the `water god` missile that attacked Crimea
(Dan Tri) – Russian air defense forces announced that they shot down Ukraine’s Neptune anti-ship missile in the northwest of the Black Sea near Crimea.
Neptune cruise missile (Photo: Tass).
`At around 8:30 p.m. Moscow time on October 3, Russia successfully prevented an attempt by Kiev authorities to carry out a terrorist attack with Neptune anti-ship missiles on facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation.`
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the country’s air defense forces discovered and destroyed the Ukrainian missile `in the northwestern Black Sea area near the coast of the Crimean peninsula`.
The governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said an air strike warning had been issued in the city.
Neptune is a coastal defense missile designed to attack enemy warships with a range of up to 306 km.
In another announcement, Governor Razvozhayev said that debris from a drone shot down by Russian air defense forces fell on the roof of an apartment building in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol.
`An air defense system was activated in Sevastopol. Sevastopol’s rescue service received reports of fragments of a drone falling on the roof of one of the apartment buildings in Inzhenernaya Balka. No one
He also said all forces are in a state of combat readiness.
Crimea merged with Russia in 2014 after a controversial referendum.
Recently, Ukraine has continuously attacked Russian targets on and around the Crimean peninsula, including the Crimean Bridge and the Black Sea Fleet.
Most recently, Kiev announced a successful raid on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the city of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula.
According to observers, through consecutive attacks on Crimea, Ukraine seems to want to send the message that even though the counterattack campaign is slow, they still have the ability to cause losses to Russia.
Spokesperson of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Agency Andrii Yusov said Russia is using Crimea as a logistics center, so the peninsula becomes a legitimate target for Ukraine.