Russia’s air defense systems shot down a drone over the Sevastopol sea. This was announced by the governor Mihail Razvozhaev, quoted by TASS.
“About 15 minutes ago, the air defense shot down an unmanned aircraft over the waters of the northern breakwater. Not even the sacred celebration of Christmas can stop these inhuman creatures from attacking the heroic city‘ he wrote on Telegram at 3:26am local time today.
In recent months, it has become Sevastopol, home to the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet target of several drone strikes.
The previous attempted attack was reported on January 4, when two drones were shot down over the waters off the city.
At the end of October, they had another incident in Sevastopol attacked ships of the Black Sea Fleet And infrastructure. The Russian Defense Ministry described the sabotage as a terrorist attack by the Ukrainian military using nine unmanned aerial vehicles and seven autonomous marine drones. According to the Russian version, the attack was carried out with the help of British instructors.
This was announced on Thursday by the Kremlin’s press service Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered establish a ceasefire along the entire line of contact in Ukraine from 12:00 on January 6 to 00:00 on January 7. Subsequently, the Minister of Defense of Russia Sergei Shoigu issued the corresponding order.
The Ukrainian authorities, on the other hand he reacted negatively to the idea of a Christmas ceasefire.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called it “an attempt to stop the Ukrainian offensive in Donbass”, a Kiev’s Western allies saidwho see Putin’s truce offer as an attempt to catch a “breath” during Putin’s dragging war.
