Shelter Built On Crimean Beach After Ukrainian Missile Attack

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JAKARTA - Tourists who packed the coast of the Black Sea on Russia's annexed Crimean peninsula this summer share a place with grim newcomers, shelters from bombs and sandbags.

For more than two years, beaches on the peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014, are only one step away from the fierce fighting in Ukraine.

Last month, fragments of Ukraine's missiles killed four people, including two children, on the coast in the city of Sevastopol, and injured 151 others.

A broadcast on Russian state television showed several victims being taken away in sunbathing chairs.

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed since the start of the war that has lasted for more than two years, and a much smaller number are civilians in Russia or in parts of Ukraine, such as Crimea, which Russia claims to have annexed.

On the beach in Uchuyevka, on the outskirts of Sevastopol, the bathers now share a packed coastline with shelter from a concrete bomb, reinforced by sandbags. people's lives.

Irina, a tourist from Russia's close ally, Belarus, said this shelter was urgently needed.

"We visit friends here and we are told that it is very scary here, but there is a shelter here and all safety measures are obeyed, I think this is very important," he added.

The Governor of Sevastopol, who was inaugurated by Russia, Mikhail Razvozhaev, last Friday said additional defense measures were needed.