At least five people have died, including three children, and 144 have been injured as a result of a Ukrainian airstrike against the port city of Sevastopol, on the Crimean peninsula, under the control of Russia, which authorities have denounced as an “attack terrorist” when it happened during an Orthodox holiday. “144 people have needed medical attention, 82 of whom have been hospitalized, including 55 adults and 27 minors,” explained the governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev. “There are cases in which people went home in a state of sock believing they had a small burn, but then they began to feel bad and went to a hospital and fragments of shrapnel were found in a CT scan,” he explained. Among the injured are five children who are in the intensive care unit of the city’s fifth hospital, explained Razvozhaev, who has already received condolences from the country’s president, Vladimir Putin. Previously, Deputy Health Minister Alexei Kuznetsov reported 27 children among the injured. The Russian Defense Ministry has reported that the attack was carried out with at least four ATACMS missiles with cluster warheads, four of which were intercepted directly by the city’s air defense shield. A fifth projectile, however, only ended up deviating from its original course to end up hitting the city. In addition, fragments of the intercepted missiles ended up falling in the coastal area of the Uchkuevka neighborhood in the northern part of Sevastopol, where one of the largest beaches in the city is located. The spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajarova, has announced the opening of an investigation for the crime of terrorism after condemning an attack that occurred during the Orthodox holiday of the Holy Trinity; a date chosen “specifically by kyiv” to commit a “ritual crime” against the population. “We will pursue international condemnation. We will do everything possible to ensure that the international community is notified of the latest crimes of the kyiv regime,” she added. The Russian Ministry of Defense has highlighted the complicity of the United States in the attack of these missiles, launched according to the information it considers from Nicolaiev, in southern Ukraine. “All flight missions of ATACMS missiles are carried out by American specialists on a reconnaissance database of American satellites. Therefore, responsibility for a deliberate missile attack against civilians in Sevastopol lies primarily with Washington,” he noted. the Department.
