The National Resistance Center of Ukraine has published a video that it claims shows a fire at the Kerch Shipyard.
"A hit on the Kerch shipyard. Photos from there later," the center's telegram channel reports.
Earlier, the Moscow-appointed authorities of the annexed Crimea reported that air defense had shot down a missile in Kerch, and its debris hit the shipyard.
According to them, no one was injured, and eyewitnesses reported smoke in the area of the shipyard. Crossings across the Kerch Strait were closed. Local eyewitnesses report that there were about three explosions.
Russian Head of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov said that several missiles were intercepted. It is alleged that some of the debris fell on the territory of one of the dry docks of the shipyard, Krym.Realii reports.
"Among other things, there were Karakurt missile ships, which are carriers of Kalibr cruise missiles," journalist Denis Kazansky quoted local eyewitnesses as saying.
At the shipyard in Kerch, as of the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, several ships for the Russian army were being built. These included small missile boats Amur, Askold and Cyclone, cable layers Volga and Vyatka, and landing ships Ivan Rogov and Mitrofan Moskalenko, according to a Radio Liberty correspondent. "The Cyclone was handed over to the fleet in 2023, while the fate of the other ships was not reported.