Ukraine says hit Black Sea oil platform used by Russia troops

The attack, which took place on Monday, was the first such strike against offshore energy infrastructure in Crimea sinceIt targeted a rig with four towers some 70 kilometres off the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, which Ukraine said was being used as a military installation.

"On those towers, Russia had organised small garrisons and stored equipment for air defence, radar warfare and reconnaissance," Sergiy Bratchuk of Odessa's regional military administration told an online briefing. "They were being turned into fortification points that were helping the Russians achieve full control of the northwestern part of the Black Sea," he said, his remarks quoted by Interfax Ukraine.

Sergey Aksyonov, head of Russian-annexed Crimea, had on Monday accused Ukraine of firing on a Black Sea oil drilling platform off the peninsula, leaving three people injured and another seven missing.At least one strike was confirmed by Bratchuk, who said such platforms were"legal military targets" for Ukraine.

"This is a small garrison. This is not just a platform for extracting gas," he said in a video posted on his Telegram channel.Bratchuk also said Ukrainian forces had"dealt a significant blow to the Russian garrison" on Snake Island, a symbolic Black Sea territory taken by Moscow at the start of its Ukraine offensive."They are located 80 to 100 kilometres off the coast and the enemy's tactics are missiles, missiles and more missiles," he said.

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