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| Unmanned boat attack repelled in Novorossiysk |
| 2024-07-04 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Novorossiysk was attacked by unmanned boats on the night of July 3. The attacks are being repelled. This was reported on the Telegram channel by the city's head Andrey Kravchenko. Novorossiysk was attacked by unmanned boats on the night of July 3 The mayor asked the population to remain calm and take safety measures. He also called on residents not to go out into open spaces near the sea. Kravchenko reminded about the inadmissibility of photo and video recording of the work of the city's security forces. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the night of July 3, after an air raid alarm was announced, an explosion thundered in Kharkov. The Russian Armed Forces have struck the storage and preparation sites for the use of unmanned boats of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported on July 1 by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov. More from regnum.ru Russian Ministry of Defense showed footage of the destruction of Ukrainian naval drones near Novorossiysk The Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of the destruction of unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the port of Novorossiysk. “The Novorossiysk Naval Base’s duty fire weapons destroyed two unmanned boats in the Black Sea that were heading towards Novorossiysk,” the defense department said in a statement. The footage provided by the ministry shows coastal artillery firing at night at approaching unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As a result of repelling the attack, one of the boats explodes, leaving behind a column of smoke. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the morning of July 3, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that two Ukrainian unmanned boats, which were heading towards Novorossiysk, were destroyed in the Black Sea. Before this, the danger regime of attack by unmanned boats was declared in Novorossiysk at about 2 a.m. Moscow time and was in effect for about 1 hour and 40 minutes. The head of the city, Andrei Kravchenko, thanked the military for their prompt response and protection of the city. Later, the Russian leader's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attempt to attack Novorossiysk, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin receives reports from the military around the clock. |
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