According to the latest news from Russia Today TV and other media, Crimea Regional Administrator Sergey Aksyonov said in a statement that on the morning of the 20th local time, missiles from Ukraine attacked the coast of Crimea. Drilling platform belonging to Russia.

According to the latest news from Russia Today TV (RT) and other media, the Chief Executive of Crimea Region Sergei Aksionov said in a statement that on the morning of the 20th local time, from Ukraine The missile attacked a Russian drilling platform off the coast of Crimea.

reported that Aksionov did not disclose the specific location of the drilling platforms that were attacked, but said that they all belonged to the Crimean Gas Company. RT stated that since 2014, the National Oil and Gas Company of Ukraine has maintained that the ownership of Crimean Gas Company is in dispute.

Aksionov said that a total of three rounds of missile attacks hit three different oil drilling platforms. There were a total of 109 staff on these platforms at the time, and these staff are currently evacuating the platforms.

Olga Kvitidi, a member of the Russian Federation Council, said in an interview with RIA Novosti that the target of Ukraine’s attack was an offshore drilling approximately 71 kilometers away from the Ukrainian port city of Odessa. platform.

According to reports, early on the 20th, some Ukrainian media released news that the Ukrainian army launched dozens of missiles that hit Snake Island, a small island off the coast of Ukraine that is controlled by Russia. Ukrainian MP Alexei Goncharenko claimed that some of the missiles hit offshore drilling platforms, not islands.