A drone was shot down over the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea on Saturday, a neighborhood official mentioned.

“The drone was shot down just previously mentioned the fleet headquarters” in the city of Sevastopol, town governor Mikhail Razvojaev wrote on Telegram, blaming the try on Ukrainian forces.

“It fell on the roof and caught fire,” he said, introducing that there was no major problems or victims.

It was the 2nd assault of its kind versus the fleet headquarters in much less than a month, after a drone assault on July 31 in its courtyard wounded 5 people and led to the cancellation of planned Fleet Day celebrations.

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It was also the hottest attack to focus on Russian armed forces infrastructure in Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula that Moscow seized and annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Assassination try

Also on Saturday, Konstantin Ivashchenko, appointed by professional-Russian forces as mayor of the port metropolis of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, was the target of an assassination attempt, in accordance to Russian news companies. 

An explosion rocked his car as it drove previous a zoo, the RIA Novosti information company quoted a law enforcement supply as expressing. 

Ivashchenko “was not injured,” the source added.

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Previously on Saturday, air defence units ended up activated in Evpatoria in western Crimea.

Russian forces on Thursday shot down a drone close to an air base in Sevastopol, just two days immediately after explosions ripped by a navy base and ammunition depot in Crimea.

In early August, a blast at the Saki air foundation killed 1 particular person and wounded many other folks.

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