01:11Eyewitness Tamara Mishukova claimed that the actions of ordinary people had helped to prevent more casualties, following the shelling of a beach in Crimea’s Sevastopol on Sunday.
"Well, people went [to help] on the beach, took stretchers, put people on them, carried them, and stopped cars [to take the injured to the hospital]. Not a single driver refused. They loaded people wherever they could and took them to the hospital until the ambulance arrived," she said.
Mishukova also said those 'both in the water and on the beach' had been hit.
"It was such a mess, people were running, screaming. When people shouted that there were wounded, that's when I rushed to help them," she recalled.
"I think, without the efforts of ordinary people there would be so many casualties," she concluded.
Earlier, 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 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," and said it would not go unanswered.
Media reports citing the assistant to the head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Alexei Kuznetsov later reported that 124 people had been wounded in the attack, including 27 children.
Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozzhayev reported that five people had been killed, including three children. The governor also announced that Monday, June 24 has been declared a day of mourning in Sevastopol.
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 timing, on the Day of the Holy Trinity, was deliberate.
"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.
At the time of publication, the Ukrainian side and Washington had not commented on the shelling of Sevastopol.
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. Ukraine's 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.
'Without efforts of ordinary people there would be so many casualties' - Eyewitness to Sevastopol beach shelling *EXCLUSIVE*
Eyewitness Tamara Mishukova claimed that the actions of ordinary people had helped to prevent more casualties, following the shelling of a beach in Crimea’s Sevastopol on Sunday.
"Well, people went [to help] on the beach, took stretchers, put people on them, carried them, and stopped cars [to take the injured to the hospital]. Not a single driver refused. They loaded people wherever they could and took them to the hospital until the ambulance arrived," she said.
Mishukova also said those 'both in the water and on the beach' had been hit.
"It was such a mess, people were running, screaming. When people shouted that there were wounded, that's when I rushed to help them," she recalled.
"I think, without the efforts of ordinary people there would be so many casualties," she concluded.
Earlier, 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 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," and said it would not go unanswered.
Media reports citing the assistant to the head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Alexei Kuznetsov later reported that 124 people had been wounded in the attack, including 27 children.
Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozzhayev reported that five people had been killed, including three children. The governor also announced that Monday, June 24 has been declared a day of mourning in Sevastopol.
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 timing, on the Day of the Holy Trinity, was deliberate.
"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.
At the time of publication, the Ukrainian side and Washington had not commented on the shelling of Sevastopol.
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. Ukraine's 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.
Eyewitness Tamara Mishukova claimed that the actions of ordinary people had helped to prevent more casualties, following the shelling of a beach in Crimea’s Sevastopol on Sunday.
"Well, people went [to help] on the beach, took stretchers, put people on them, carried them, and stopped cars [to take the injured to the hospital]. Not a single driver refused. They loaded people wherever they could and took them to the hospital until the ambulance arrived," she said.
Mishukova also said those 'both in the water and on the beach' had been hit.
"It was such a mess, people were running, screaming. When people shouted that there were wounded, that's when I rushed to help them," she recalled.
"I think, without the efforts of ordinary people there would be so many casualties," she concluded.
Earlier, 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 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," and said it would not go unanswered.
Media reports citing the assistant to the head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Alexei Kuznetsov later reported that 124 people had been wounded in the attack, including 27 children.
Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozzhayev reported that five people had been killed, including three children. The governor also announced that Monday, June 24 has been declared a day of mourning in Sevastopol.
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 timing, on the Day of the Holy Trinity, was deliberate.
"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.
At the time of publication, the Ukrainian side and Washington had not commented on the shelling of Sevastopol.
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. Ukraine's 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.