The Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday that its air defenses shot down at least two missiles fired at the Crimean Bridge and foiled a drone attack on the Crimean Peninsula. The bridge serves as the main link between Russia and Crimea.
The deaths in Kherson, in southern Ukraine, came amid another slew of strikes across the country. Since Saturday, Russian forces have launched seven missiles, 47 airstrikes and 43 rocket attacks, some of which killed civilians and destroyed infrastructure, Ukraine’s military said early Sunday.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that it foiled a drone attack on the Crimean Peninsula over the weekend, and shot down at least two missiles fired at the Crimean Bridge, which links Russia with the territory. Moscow illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.Key developmentsnear the charred remains of a one-story home in the village of Shiroka Balka in Kherson, where the family and one other resident were killed Sunday.
Two men died in strikes on the neighboring village of Stanislav, according to Klymenko. Russian forces withdrew from Kherson city late last year amid a Ukrainian counteroffensive, but they still control territory on the left bank of the Dnieper River., Russia’s state-run Tass news agency reported. It was the first such incident since Russia withdrew last month from a U.N.-backed deal allowing for the safe wartime export of Ukrainian grain.
Ukraine’s navy announced the creation of the corridors last week and said they would be used mostly to allow civilian vessels stuck since the start of the war to exit Ukrainian ports, Interfax Ukraine reported on Saturday, citing Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk.
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