Russia’s emergency services are surveying the coast and sea after a Ukrainian missile killed civilians and left numerous injured
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Russia’s emergency services have discovered an unexploded cluster bomblet in the waters near Sevastopol following a deadly Ukrainian missile strike on a beach last weekend.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian military fired five US-supplied ATACMS missiles at the Crimean city of Sevastopol on Sunday. Russian air defense systems destroyed four of the projectiles in mid-air, but the fifth was damaged, veered off course, and detonated its cluster warhead over a packed beach. The strike killed at least four people, including two children, and injured more than 150 others.
The police and special teams of the Russian Emergency Ministry and other departments continue to work at the location. Emergency services specialists have examined the coastline and the beach area in the town of Uchkuevka, near Sevastopol, where the missile exploded, and are currently inspecting the sea as well.