Russian official says Ukrainian drones kill three, injure 16 in Crimea resort area

September 22 ------ A Ukrainian drone attack on a resort area of the Crimea peninsula killed three people and injured 16, the area's top official said, in an attack denounced by Moscow. 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.

The Russian Defense Ministry said: "At 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." The ministry described the incident as a "premeditated terrorist attack on a civilian target".

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denounced the incident as "yet another act of terrorism by the Kyiv regime. "And NATO and the European Union, when seeking the aggressor on the European continent, need to look into the mirror to see this," she told the TASS news agency. "They 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."

Source: reuters.com