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Russia has said their Black Sea Fleet repelled a drone attack on the Crimean port of Sevastopol in the early hours of Monday.
“According to the latest information: one surface drone was destroyed ... the second one exploded on its own,” Moscow-installed governor Mikhail Razvozhaev wrote on the Telegram messaging app. “Now the city is quiet.”
No damage was reported, Mr Razvozhaev added.
Sevastopol, along with the rest of the Crimean peninsula, was declared annexed by Russia in 2014 but is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the son of Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, claimed he served with the Wagner mercenary group for six months in Ukraine.
In an interview with pro-Kremlin daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, Nikolai Peskov said it was his “duty” and he “couldn’t sit to one side watching as friends and others went off there”.
