Moscow shoots down a drone over Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Crimea, blaming the attack on Kiev
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday accepted a mission “as soon as possible” from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, in light of the existing “risk of catastrophe” from ongoing clashes in the area. Today, he reaffirms his apparent concern with new allegations against the Ukrainian armed forces for the use of chemical weapons in the region.
The Russian Defense Ministry highlights an alleged attack that took place in late July in Vasilyevka, in the Zaporizhzhya region, the center of fierce fighting in recent weeks. According to a complaint in Moscow, doctors found traces of a neurotoxin in several soldiers who were evacuated with serious injuries. The Kremlin, which will turn over the evidence to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, has stated that Volodímir Zelensky’s regime is resorting to “chemical terrorism” despite its “military defeats” on the ground.
For his part, Russian army spokesman Igor Konashenkov added that another investigation will be conducted into an alleged chemical poisoning of a military commando in the Kherson region, which has been under Russian control since last March. At the moment, however, there is no official record that Ukrainian forces resorted to the use of chemical weapons during the invasion.
This Saturday, Moscow also denounced a drone raid on Crimea. In particular, he reported the shooting down in the early hours of an unmanned aerial vehicle over the main building of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. “The target was destroyed without casualties or damage,” said Sergei Aksionov, governor of the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
The administrative head of Sebastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, warned that the remains of the drone fell on the roof of the barracks and blamed Kiev for the attack. The Ukrainian presidency has not made any statement in this regard. It is not the first offensive on the peninsula in recent days. Just this week, an ammunition depot in the area exploded and, according to Russian authorities, a drone was shot down over the city of Kerch.
Meanwhile, fighting continues in the invaded country, where a Russian bombing raid in Voznesensk, near the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant – the second most powerful in Ukraine – in the Mykolaiv region, injured at least 12 people, including three minors. . seventeen years old. Two of the children are in “serious condition,” said regional governor Vitali Kim. The Kiev army also said it had shot down four Russian “Kalibr”-type cruise missiles near Dnipro that were launched from the Black Sea.
In a series of airstrikes carried out on Kharkov in recent hours, Russia has claimed to have killed some 300 fighters from the Ukrainian armed forces, including 20 “US mercenaries”. According to the Russian army spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, the attack, carried out with “precision weapons”, took place near the city of Andreevka and resulted in about “80 Ukrainian troops, members of the ultra-nationalist formation Kraken and other foreign fighters for hire.” Another 200 soldiers are said to have died in Dnipropetrovsk in an offensive that “almost completely destroyed” the battalion of the 110 Territorial Defense Brigade of the Kiev Armed Forces, Konashenkov said.
Source: La Verdad
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