A Ukrainian drone attack on a resort area of the Crimea peninsula killed three people and injured 16, the area\u2019s top official said, in an attack denounced by Moscow.<\/p>\n
Sergei Aksyonov, the Moscow-appointed head of Crimea, seized and annexed from Ukraine by Russia in 2014, gave the toll from the town of Faros in a Telegram post.<\/p>\n
The Russian Defense Ministry said: \u201cAt about 19:30 Moscow time (1630 GMT) in the resort area of Crimea where there are no military targets whatsoever, the Ukrainian armed forces launched a terrorist strike using strike drones equipped with high-explosive payloads.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ministry described the incident as a \u201cpremeditated terrorist attack on a civilian target.\u201d<\/p>\n
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denounced the incident as \u201cyet another act of terrorism by the Kyiv regime.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd NATO and the European Union, when seeking the aggressor on the European continent, need to look into the mirror to see this,\u201d she told the TASS news agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are the ones driving destabilization and the spread of terrorism in Europe by virtue of their sponsorship of the Kyiv regime and as supplier of arms to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ukrainian officials issued no comment on the incident and Reuters could not independently verify the report.<\/p>\n
Aksyonov had earlier said that a school in the town was also damaged and falling drone debris sparked fires on open ground near Yalta along Crimea\u2019s southern shore.<\/p>\n
Mikhail Rozvozhayev, governor of Sevastopol, the home port of Russia\u2019s Black Sea Fleet, wrote on Telegram that anti-aircraft units had downed three drones in the area.<\/p>\n
Russia annexed and incorporated Crimea into its territory in 2014 in the aftermath of a popular uprising in Kyiv that prompted a Russia-friendly president to flee Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Subtropical Crimea has been a popular holiday area since Soviet times for both tourists and the Soviet and the elite.<\/p>\n
Krymsky Veter, an independent website devoted to Crimean affairs, said senior officials were likely staying in the region\u2019s guest houses.<\/p>\n
Foros gained international notoriety in 1991 when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was briefly detained at a government dacha, or country house, during a shortlived attempt by hard-liners to unseat him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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