Updated with Defense Ministry's statement that one soldier went missing, and the Ukrainian army's statement.Ukraine claimed responsibility for a missile attack that struck the headquarters of Moscow's Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea Friday, leaving one missing and sparking a fire.Ukraine has targeted Crimea throughout Russia's offensive but attacks on military installations there have recently intensified."Around 12:00, Ukraine's Defence Forces launched a successful attack on the headquarters of the command of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol," the Ukrainian army's communication department said on Telegram.Russias Defense Ministry had said earlier that one serviceman waskilledin the strike on Sevastopol, where the Black Sea Fleet is based, but later updated its statement to say the soldier was in fact missing."The serviceman was not killed, but is missing," it said.Missile debris fell near a theater 200 meters from the Russian Navys headquarters,the Kremlin-installed head of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev said.An hour after Razvozhayevs statement, Crimean Governor Sergei Aksyonov saidair defense systems shot down multiple cruise missiles over the annexed peninsula.Video shared by anonymously run channels on the Telegram messaging app showed charred columns and smoke coming out of a building identified as the Russian Navy's headquarters.Razvozhayevsaidemergency crews were fighting to put out the fire that broke out at the headquarters, but added that no civilian infrastructure in the area had been damaged.People who were outside at the moment of the strike were also unharmed, he wrote on Telegram.The attacks come a week after Ukraine said itdamaged Russian warships and destroyed an air defense system in a series of strikes on Crimea.
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