Furious reaction of the Russians after a Ukrainian strike in Crimea: “They will pay for this sacrilege!”

Ukrainian drones hit a historical museum in Sevastopol, Crimea, local Russian authorities announced on Wednesday, according to Reuters.

The museum commemorates the Crimean War of 1853-1856 between the Russian Empire and a coalition that included the Ottoman Empire. Russia was defeated in that war.

The governor of Sevastopol, installed by Russia, Mikhail Razvozhayev, wrote on Telegram that the roof of the museum caught fire. He did not provide further details about the damage or whether there were any casualties.

“The enemy will pay for this sacrilege!” Razvozhayev said in his Wednesday morning post.

The Russian authorities of the annexed Crimea reported a fire due to a drone hitting the panoramic museum dedicated to the defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean Warhttps://t.co/db2pfbk1NK
📷: razvozhaev / Telegram pic.twitter.com/IUZSr5lKX7

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Also in Crimea, authorities have reduced nighttime trains, the peninsula's Russian-appointed governor, Sergei Aksionov, said after a drone strike this week wounded a train driver and killed his assistant.

The Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014, is facing fuel shortages following recent drone attacks in Ukraine.

In total, Russia shot down 326 Ukrainian drones overnight, more than a dozen of which were headed for Moscow, the Defense Ministry and Moscow's mayor said in social media posts.

In Russia, the city of Novokuibyshevsk in Russia's Samara region, a major oil hub located on the banks of the Volga River and home to several refineries operated by state oil giant Rosneft, repelled drone attacks, the regional governor said.

Also in Russia's southern Rostov region, on the border with Ukraine, debris from a drone caused a fire in a fuel tank at a civilian facility, and in the central Vladimir region, two industrial facilities caught fire, regional governors said on Telegram.

Also, in a rare move, Russia's remote oil-producing regions of Khanty-Mansiysk, Perm and Tyumen, as well as the industrial regions of Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains, thousands of kilometers from Ukraine, issued air raid alerts, according to social media posts by local authorities.

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