Russia allegedly fired missile cruise ship off the coast of the Crimean Peninsula, just west of Sevastopol, to the region Ukraine.
The missile launch was captured in a video circulating in the media.
“Obviously there’s a ship from a distance. It’s shooting something, but where you can’t see it,” a man in the video in Russian is quoted as saying. CNNWednesday(23/3).
CNN has geolocated the video, and the missile is believed to be headed for Ukraine.
Even so, there has been no official information about who launched the missile from both Russia and Ukraine. However, the battle of the Russian army vs. Ukraine is reported to be increasingly fierce, in which the Russian army is said to have begun to be overwhelmed by resistance.
Ukrainian troops are also reported to be increasingly free to move in attacking positions and are trying to reclaim areas that are being occupied by Russia, such as the city of Kherson.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the United States Department of Defense, John Kirby, said Washington had seen an increase in Russian military activity north of the Black Sea.
“We’re seeing indications of some of the bombardment around Odessa coming out of the sea, from the area of the fighting side (combatants). I can’t tell you exactly what ammunition and how much and what they detonated,” Kirby said on Monday (21/21). 3) then.
Ukraine has been under Russian attack since Moscow decided to invade the country on February 24.
Since then, explosions have continued to occur in a number of cities in Ukraine. Russian troops tried to take control of the cities but met fierce resistance from Ukrainian troops.
Bombardments that continue every day make casualties fall. According to the United Nations, 953 civilians have been killed, including 78 children, and 1,557 people have reportedly been injured since the invasion.
Meanwhile, according to data from the Ukrainian emergency services, the death toll reached 2,000 people.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to end the invasion if Ukraine becomes a neutral country and does not join NATO, recognizing Crimea as part of the Kremlin, demilitarizing and denazing eastern Ukraine.
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