Video of the attack circulating online showed a plume of gray smoke rising over a blue sky just north of Sevastopol.

Broadcasting news corporation : Russia’s Navy headquarters in occupied Crimea suffered a direct hit from a Ukrainian drone Saturday, resulting in a massive explosion — and mass confusion over the circumstances of the attack. “Unfortunately, [the drone] was not shot down, although they worked on the bay with small arms. [It] went low. There were no victims,” Russia’s Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev said in a Telegram message shortly after the attack. “The tenacity of these Ukro-Reich morons is amazing. Everyone, if possible, needs to be home in the next hour.” Later, Russian authorities claimed their forces had successfully downed multiple Ukrainian drones, including the one that slammed into the home of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. “Clarification: the drone was hit…right above the fleet headquarters. It fell on the roof and caught fire,” Razvozhaev wrote. “The attack failed. Well done boys.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to celebrate the incursion in his nightly address – and hinted at a coming offensive to retake control of the peninsula that was forcibly annexed by Russia in 2014. “The Crimean platform is ahead,” Zelensky promised. “One can literally feel in the air of Crimea that the occupation there is temporary, and Ukraine is returning.” Video of the drone attack circulating online showed a plume of gray smoke rising over a blue sky just north of Sevastopol, the peninsula’s largest city. Other video contains audio of furious Russian gunfire trying to shoot down the drone.
The attack is the latest in a string of mystery bombings in Crimea. The withering assaults have reportedly caused havoc among Russia’s naval logistics and come just months after the sinking of their flagship battleship Moskva and the reconquest of Snake Island. A dozen large explosions rocked a Russian air base in occupied Crimea Aug. 9, killing at least one. In the wake of those attacks, Saturday’s drone flights badly rattled locals in Crimea, who previously felt beyond the reach of Ukraine’s military and insulated from the ravages of the horrific conflict that has shattered cities like Mykolaiv and Melitopol just to their north. “Was our air defense system on a lunch break?” one pro-Russian resident asked Razvozhaev on social media. “When will you finally close the city?” another demanded, echoing a widespread fear among Russian partisans that Ukrainian fighters have infiltrated the contested peninsula. Meanwhile, Russian forces intensified their assault on Bakhmut, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. The small city, one of just a few in the eastern Donbas region still in Ukrainian hands, has been a top target in Moscow’s effort to wrench control of Ukraine’s industrial heartland away from Kyiv. Britain’s Ministry of Defense painted a bleak picture of the bloody impasse in its daily report. “The last week has seen only minimal changes in territorial control along the front line … However, increasingly frequent explosions behind Russian lines are probably stressing Russian logistics and air basing in the south,” the agency posted Saturday. “It is unlikely that the situation will significantly change in the next week.” With Post Wires. NEWS COLLECTED FROM NEW YORK POST.