Russian occupiers in Ukrainian Crimea threaten not only national but also European security. The Black Sea region cannot be safe as long as the island remains under Russian occupation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed during an evening address.

“Russia has turned our peninsula into one of the most dangerous places. The presence of Russian occupiers in Crimea is a threat to all of Europe and global stability. The Black Sea region cannot be safe while Crimea is occupied,” Zelensky stressed.

As long as the occupier uses the peninsula as his military base, there will be no stable and lasting peace in many countries on the Mediterranean coast, he stressed..

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Today in the Crimea, the airfield " The 43rd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation is based at the airport..

The planes taking off from it fired at Nikolaev and interfered with the Ukrainian defenders in the south.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that “several ammunition detonated” at the airfield and there was no “outside interference”. One person killed and nine injured.

NYT, citing sources, said that the blow was delivered by the Ukrainian Armed Forces from domestic long-range weapons.. Probably, we are talking about the Grom missile system.