The United States responded to Moscow’s accusations of an attack on Sevastopol

The Ukrainian military independently makes decisions about strikes against Russian invaders. This was said on Monday, June 24, by Pentagon spokesman Major Charlie Dietz, responding to accusations from the Russian Foreign Ministry, which states that the United States allegedly directed the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strike with ATACMS missiles on Sevastopol, after which civilians were injured. and killed, Reuters reports.

“Ukraine makes its own targeting decisions and conducts its own military operations,” Dietz said.

He also noted that any loss of civilian life is a tragedy and that “certainly includes the thousands of innocent Ukrainians killed by Russian forces since the beginning of the Russian invasion.”

Thus, he commented on the accusation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which called the strike a “hybrid war” of the US and declared Washington a party to the conflict, saying that “specialists from the United States are aiming weapons at the target.”

We remind you that explosions took place in several cities of the temporarily occupied Crimea on Sunday, June 23. The Russian occupiers announced an allegedly repulsed attack.

Meanwhile, local Telegram channels wrote that Russian air defense shot down a missile on Uchkuevka beach near Sevastopol. In addition, there is a so-called “munition convergence” – an abnormal fall of Russian air defense missiles. The main part fell into the sea, but a shell fell on the beach and caused the death of two people.

There are not and cannot be “beaches” and “tourist areas” in Crimea – Office of the President