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Russia has thwarted an overnight attack of Ukrainian drones on its naval and civilian vessels in the Black Sea, the Russian defense ministry said on Tuesday.
"During the night the armed forces of Ukraine made an unsuccessful attempt to attack the Sergei Kotov and Vasiliy Bykov patrol ships of the Black Sea fleet with three unmanned sea boats," the defense ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Later, in its daily briefing, the ministry said navy ships had destroyed three more sea drones targeting civilian vessels.
"During the night, the Kyiv regime attempted a terrorist attack with three semi-submersible unmanned boats on Russian civilian transport vessels heading towards the Bosphorus Strait in the southwestern part of the Black Sea," the ministry said.
However, a senior Ukrainian presidential adviser said that Kyiv did not attack and will not attack civilian vessels or any other civilian objects in the Black Sea, calling Russian statements 'fictitious'.
"Undoubtedly, such statements by Russian officials are fictitious and do not contain even a shred of truth. Ukraine has not attacked, is not attacking and will not attack civilian vessels, nor any other civilian objects," Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told Reuters.
(With input from Reuters)
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