01:06Mandatory credit: Russian EMERCOM
The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s (EMERCOM) personnel were seen inspecting Sevastopol’s shoreline on Wednesday, following reported shelling of the city last weekend.
Footage shows divers submerging into the Black Sea and retrieving a shell fragment.
According to the EMERCOM’s press service, the ministry’s specialists checked more than 20,000 square metres of the seabed for explosive objects, with 45,000 square metres remaining to be inspected.
"One unexploded cluster munition was found. It is planned to destroy it on the spot," the statement read.
On Sunday, June 23, Russian Defence Ministry reported that a "terrorist missile attack was carried out on the city of Sevastopol by five American ATACMS tactical missiles equipped with cluster warheads."
The Ministry noted that four missiles were intercepted by the air defence system, while "the explosion of the fragmentation warhead of the fifth missile in the air led to numerous casualties among civilians in Sevastopol," when rocket fragments struck Uchkuevka beach.
The Defence Ministry attributed the strike to "Washington, which supplied these weapons to Ukraine, as well as the Kiev regime, from whose territory this attack was launched." The press service also said that there would be a response.
The city’s governor Mikhail Razvozhayev reported via his Telegram channel that 4 people, including 2 children, were killed. 153 victims requested medical assistance, 79 of them were hospitalised.
The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case into a possible 'terrorist act', with investigators at the scene.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova claimed that the strike's timing was deliberate - on the Day of the Holy Trinity.
"We perfectly understand what is inside the essence of the Kiev regime - it is a deep hatred for everything connected with Russia, with Russian culture. And of course, Orthodoxy and Christianity in general," Zakharova claimed.
Monday, June 24, was declared a day of mourning in Sevastopol.
The advisor to the head of the Ukrainian president's office, Mykhaylo Podolyak, wrote in his Telegram channel that "there were not and cannot be any 'beaches', tourist zones' and 'other fictitious signs of peaceful life' in Crimea."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed Moscow had 'no doubt' that the US and 'its Ukrainian underlings' were involved in the incident in Sevastopol.
US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller stated that Washington regrets "any civilian loss of life in this war" but was providing weapons to Ukraine so it "could defend its sovereign territory against armed aggression - that includes in Crimea."
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Russia's EMERCOM inspects shoreline following Sevastopol beach shelling
The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s (EMERCOM) personnel were seen inspecting Sevastopol’s shoreline on Wednesday, following reported shelling of the city last weekend.
Footage shows divers submerging into the Black Sea and retrieving a shell fragment.
According to the EMERCOM’s press service, the ministry’s specialists checked more than 20,000 square metres of the seabed for explosive objects, with 45,000 square metres remaining to be inspected.
"One unexploded cluster munition was found. It is planned to destroy it on the spot," the statement read.
On Sunday, June 23, Russian Defence Ministry reported that a "terrorist missile attack was carried out on the city of Sevastopol by five American ATACMS tactical missiles equipped with cluster warheads."
The Ministry noted that four missiles were intercepted by the air defence system, while "the explosion of the fragmentation warhead of the fifth missile in the air led to numerous casualties among civilians in Sevastopol," when rocket fragments struck Uchkuevka beach.
The Defence Ministry attributed the strike to "Washington, which supplied these weapons to Ukraine, as well as the Kiev regime, from whose territory this attack was launched." The press service also said that there would be a response.
The city’s governor Mikhail Razvozhayev reported via his Telegram channel that 4 people, including 2 children, were killed. 153 victims requested medical assistance, 79 of them were hospitalised.
The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case into a possible 'terrorist act', with investigators at the scene.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova claimed that the strike's timing was deliberate - on the Day of the Holy Trinity.
"We perfectly understand what is inside the essence of the Kiev regime - it is a deep hatred for everything connected with Russia, with Russian culture. And of course, Orthodoxy and Christianity in general," Zakharova claimed.
Monday, June 24, was declared a day of mourning in Sevastopol.
The advisor to the head of the Ukrainian president's office, Mykhaylo Podolyak, wrote in his Telegram channel that "there were not and cannot be any 'beaches', tourist zones' and 'other fictitious signs of peaceful life' in Crimea."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed Moscow had 'no doubt' that the US and 'its Ukrainian underlings' were involved in the incident in Sevastopol.
US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller stated that Washington regrets "any civilian loss of life in this war" but was providing weapons to Ukraine so it "could defend its sovereign territory against armed aggression - that includes in Crimea."
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Mandatory credit: Russian EMERCOM
The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s (EMERCOM) personnel were seen inspecting Sevastopol’s shoreline on Wednesday, following reported shelling of the city last weekend.
Footage shows divers submerging into the Black Sea and retrieving a shell fragment.
According to the EMERCOM’s press service, the ministry’s specialists checked more than 20,000 square metres of the seabed for explosive objects, with 45,000 square metres remaining to be inspected.
"One unexploded cluster munition was found. It is planned to destroy it on the spot," the statement read.
On Sunday, June 23, Russian Defence Ministry reported that a "terrorist missile attack was carried out on the city of Sevastopol by five American ATACMS tactical missiles equipped with cluster warheads."
The Ministry noted that four missiles were intercepted by the air defence system, while "the explosion of the fragmentation warhead of the fifth missile in the air led to numerous casualties among civilians in Sevastopol," when rocket fragments struck Uchkuevka beach.
The Defence Ministry attributed the strike to "Washington, which supplied these weapons to Ukraine, as well as the Kiev regime, from whose territory this attack was launched." The press service also said that there would be a response.
The city’s governor Mikhail Razvozhayev reported via his Telegram channel that 4 people, including 2 children, were killed. 153 victims requested medical assistance, 79 of them were hospitalised.
The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case into a possible 'terrorist act', with investigators at the scene.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova claimed that the strike's timing was deliberate - on the Day of the Holy Trinity.
"We perfectly understand what is inside the essence of the Kiev regime - it is a deep hatred for everything connected with Russia, with Russian culture. And of course, Orthodoxy and Christianity in general," Zakharova claimed.
Monday, June 24, was declared a day of mourning in Sevastopol.
The advisor to the head of the Ukrainian president's office, Mykhaylo Podolyak, wrote in his Telegram channel that "there were not and cannot be any 'beaches', tourist zones' and 'other fictitious signs of peaceful life' in Crimea."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed Moscow had 'no doubt' that the US and 'its Ukrainian underlings' were involved in the incident in Sevastopol.
US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller stated that Washington regrets "any civilian loss of life in this war" but was providing weapons to Ukraine so it "could defend its sovereign territory against armed aggression - that includes in Crimea."
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.