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Dec 26 (Reuters) – Ukraine carried out an air assault on Feodosia in Crimea, Ukraine’s air pressure commander mentioned on Tuesday, after the Russian-installed governor of the Crimea mentioned that the assault sparked a fireplace within the city’s port space.
The commander of Ukraine’s air pressure, Mykola Oleshchuk, mentioned on the Telegram messaging app, with out offering proof, that the assault destroyed a significant Russian Navy vessel, the touchdown Novocherkask ship.
“And the fleet in Russia is getting smaller and smaller! Due to the Air Pressure pilots and everybody concerned for the filigree work!” mentioned Oleshchuk.
The report couldn’t be independently verified and there was no quick remark from Russia.
Each Russia and Ukraine have typically exaggerated the losses they declare to have inflicted upon one another within the 22-month lengthy conflict, whereas underestimated their very own casualty and gear losses.
Earlier on Tuesday, Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed governor of Crimea, mentioned solely that the Ukrainian assault resulted in a fireplace within the city’s port space that was promptly contained.
“All related emergency companies are on web site,” Aksyonov mentioned on the Telegram. “Residents of a number of homes shall be evacuated.”
Footage posted on a number of Russian information retailers on Telegram confirmed highly effective explosions and fires over a port space.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in a broadly condemned transfer in 2014. (Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Modifying by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Michael Perry)
