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Russian officials say at least five killed after air systems intercepted projectile above a busy holiday resortJames Kilner 23 June 2024 • 5:09pm Shrapnel from an intercepted US-made missile fired by Ukraine hit a beach packed with sunbathing tourists in occupied Crimea on Sunday.
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Russian officials said at least five people, including three children, had died of shrapnel wounds – and they expected the death toll to rise. A video shot by a tourist on the beach shows a missile coming into view above the nearby city of Sevastopol and then exploding. Shrapnel crashes into the sand in a succession of thuds and bangs, and tourists scream and run. “Run!” one of the tourists shouts.
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Russia’s ministry of defence said its air-defence systems had intercepted one of five US-made ATACMS long-range artillery rockets fired by Ukraine at Crimea. It blamed the US for the attack and said that the intercepted missile had been armed with a cluster munition warhead that exploded over the beach.
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“Responsibility for the deliberate missile attack on civilians in Sevastopol lies primarily with Washington, which supplied these weapons to Ukraine, as well as the Kyiv regime,” it said. “Such actions will not go unanswered.”
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The missile that was intercepted did spread shrapnel at a Crimean beach. So far I've heard 4 dead and hundreds injured from the shrapnel: https://youtube.com/shorts/MRl98EBOd-w?si=ImaF2lIs8yemMK6o
non-short link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRl98EBOd-w
Among the 2 kids
A cluster munition deployed over a beach on a sunny day would have killed hundreds of people. This sounds like fragments from the destroyed missile and the interceptor that destroyed it.