INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukraine said it had struck part of Russia's air defense system in annexed Crimea overnight, as Moscow said it repelled a major attempted
missile strike on the peninsula on Monday.Kyiv has increased attacks on the Black Sea peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, since it
launched a counteroffensive against Russian forces earlier this year."The Armed Forces successfully hit a strategic object of the air
defense system on the western coast of occupied Crimea," the Ukrainian army's strategic communications unit said on social media.It gave no
further details and Russia gave no official comment.Later on Monday, Russia said its air defenses had successfully shot down eight Ukrainian
missiles fired at the peninsula."On October 30, at around 13:00 (10:00 GMT), an attempted attack by the Kyiv regime with eight Storm Shadow
cruise missiles at targets on the Crimean peninsula was stopped," Russia's Defense Ministry said."As a result of air defense systems
repelling the attack, all missiles were shot down," it added.Storm Shadows are British-supplied missile systems with a range of over 250
kilometers (155 miles) that enable Kyiv to hit targets deep behind the frontlines in the east and south of Ukraine.One person was injured
from falling debris, the Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol said.Russian military bloggers had overnight reported Ukraine was stepping
"combined attack."It alleged Ukraine had launched two U.S
ATACMS missiles which fell near the village of Olenivka, on the western coast of Crimea.Rybar said Russian forces were not able to down the
missiles "but thanks to measures taken earlier there was no serious damage."The social media account alleged that "half an hour later" Black
Sea Fleet sailors discovered three Ukrainian naval drones near Sevastopol.Rybar said one of them was "destroyed," while another two tried to
enter the Bay of Khersones before being shot at and sunk by Russian forces.Ukraine has regularly targeted Russia's Black Sea Fleet in
Crimea.In September, Kyiv said it had hit a symbolic army headquarters in Sevastopol.
