Moscow's forces 'repelled an attack by an anti-ship missile' on Sevastopol early on Sunday, the Kremlin-installed governor of the city said.
Ukraine fired an anti-ship missile at Russia's main Black Sea fleet base in Crimea on Sunday, according to local Russian-backed authorities.Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol, said on Sunday that Moscow's military had 'repelled an attack by an anti-ship missile' earlier in the day along the north of the port city. 'The falling fragments caused a small fire, which was quickly extinguished,' he said.
'An unnamed source in Ukraine's military intelligence agency, the GUR, told The Kyiv Independent that information was still being verified.Ukraine's navy has previously said Russia has moved many of its vessels from Sevastopol, which sits on Crimea's southwest coast, to its Black Sea fleet base at Novorossiysk, in Russia's Krasnodar region.
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