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The bridges connecting occupied Crimea in Kherson Oblast were mined but were not destroyed at the start of the full-scale invasion, and bridges over the Dnipro River in Kherson and Nova Kakhovka were not mined at all, General Andrii Sokolov said in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda on Sept. 18.
A state television presenter dubbed the 'Iron Doll of Putin TV' appeared to deny the Russian president's argument that Moscow has a historic claim to the Black Sea territory of Crimea.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Aug. 4 that 13 Ukrainian drones were shot down in Crimea overnight, and two unmanned surface vessels were destroyed while attacking a naval base in Russia's Novorossiysk.
The Western and Ukrainian media reported on Aug. 4 that a Russian landing craft in Novorossiysk was damaged by a drone in a joint operation between the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Ukrainian Navy, citing their sources within the service.
The arson attempt comes just days after residents of the annexed territory of Crimea had reportedly been conducting 'systematic' sabotage against Russian bases on the peninsula.