Six people were hurt when a drone-borne explosive device exploded at the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Russia on Sunday, according to officials.
Russia’s Navy Day celebrations were canceled as a result of the explosion at the headquarters in Sevastopol, a city on the Crimean Peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.
The drone seemed to be handmade, according to the Black Sea Fleet’s press staff. Although the explosion was characterized as being “low-power,” Sevastopol’s mayor, Mikhail Razvozhaev, reported six persons were hurt.
Sevastopol is around 100 miles south of the Ukrainian peninsula, and Russian forces have control over much of the Black Sea region’s mainland, although it is yet unknown where the drone started its trip.
Conflict persisted in other parts of Ukraine. Oleksiy Vadatursky, one of Ukraine’s richest men, and his wife were murdered by shelling, according to Vitaliy Kim, the mayor of Mykolaiv, a significant port city. Vadatursky oversaw a company that produced and exported grains.
One person was killed by shelling in the Sumy area of northern Ukraine, close to the Russian border, according to the local government.
According to governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, three persons were killed in attacks during the course of the previous day in the Donetsk area, which is partially controlled by Russian rebel troops.
An advisor to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mykhailo Podolyak, said on Twitter on Sunday that photos of the jail where at least 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war perished in an explosion on Friday suggested that the bomb originated from within the structure in the Russian-controlled Olenivka.
According to Russian sources, Ukraine targeted the facility in an effort to silence any POWs who could be providing information about Ukrainian military activities.
A modest, square structure in the center of the Olenivka jail complex was devastated, its roof in shards, according to satellite images obtained before and after the attack.
The building was not assaulted from the air or by artillery, according to those photographs, according to Podolyak, and he claimed the evidence was compatible with a hyperbaric bomb detonated inside.