An air alert was announced in occupied Sevastopol due to a missile attack

The head of the occupation authorities of Sevastopol, Mykhailo Razvozhaev, announced a missile attack on Crimea. An air alert was announced in the city at 3:14 p.m. Kyiv time, and it was canceled at 3:32 p.m. According to the official, the air defense of the Russian Federation was working, Razvozhaev indicated that “one Neptune anti-ship missile has already been shot down over the water area at a considerable distance from the shore.”

“Suspilne” with reference to a local resident reported a loud explosion from the sea.

The editorial staff of Radio Liberty is currently unable to verify this information from independent sources due to Russia’s occupation of Crimea.

The Russian authorities did not comment on the information.

Starting from August 2022, the sounds of explosions are regularly heard in Crimea. In an interview with Radio Liberty in August of last year, the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense, Kyrylo Budanov, stated the ability of Ukrainian forces to reach any point in the occupied Crimea to defeat the enemy. According to him, there are many different options for the de-occupation of Crimea, but “it is impossible without military, combat operations.”