Explosions shook the Sevastopol Bay, which is located on the Russian-occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, today. Russian authorities said Russian forces repelled a missile attack against one of their ships early this morning in the port of Sevastopol, Crimea, according to TASS. According to the spokesman of the Ukrainian Navy, Dmytro Pletenchuk, the Russian ship Kommuna, a submarine rescue ship from 1915, which is the oldest in the Russian Navy and the oldest military ship in service in the world, caught fire, writes the Ukrainska Pravda server.
“Falling debris caused a small fire that was quickly extinguished,” stated Moscow-appointed governor Mikhail Razvozhayev, who was quoted by the TASS agency.
Pletenchuk said that the ship was hit according to preliminary reports from the Ukrainian Navy “no longer able to carry out missions”. According to Ukrainska Pravda, Russia used Kommuna to search for the location of Ukrainian forces in April 2022 sank the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the cruiser Moskva.
Ukrainska pravda this morning, referring to Russian media and reports on social networks, wrote that v Explosions were heard in Sevastopol Bay and people saw “a lot of smoke”. The Crimean bridge connecting southern Russia with the Ukrainian peninsula, which the Russians annexed in 2014, was also temporarily closed. On the Telegram network discovered reports of fire trucks heading north of Sevastopol.
Sevastopol used to be the main base of the Russian Black Sea Fleetbut repeated Ukrainian attacks from the air and from the sea forced the Russian command to move the core of the fleet to other ports.
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Ukrainian embassies and consulates stop serving men of military age – so that they do not avoid mobilization by going abroad. “In order to prevent evasion by citizens of Ukraine of the obligation to deal with the issue of military registration through the territorial centers of personnel and social security and the availability of military registration documents, I order from 04/23/2024 to temporarily suspend consular operations at the request of male citizens of Ukraine between the ages of 18 and 60,” Deputy Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha wrote to the authorities in a letter obtained by Zerkalo nedeli.
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