The Office of the President of Ukraine referred to the residents of Crimea affected by the strike on a beach in Sevastopol as ‘civilian occupiers’

Residents of Crimea who were killed and injured due to a strike on a beach in Uchkuyevka, on the northern shore of Sevastopol, were labeled “civilian occupiers” by the Office of the President of Ukraine.

This statement was made by Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the head of the President’s Office, on his Telegram channel.

He wrote that there are “no and cannot be any ‘beaches,’ ‘tourist zones,’ or other fictitious signs of ‘peaceful life’ in Crimea.”

“This is also a large military camp and warehouse, with hundreds of direct military targets that Russians cynically try to mask and cover with their own civilians. Who, in turn, are… civilian occupiers,” Podolyak’s post reads.

Meanwhile, Moscow summoned U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID) over the ATACMS missile strike on Sevastopol and presented her with a demarche. This was reported on the Russian MID’s social media.

The Russian MID stated that the U.S. shares equal responsibility with the Kyiv regime for the missile strike on the civilian population of Sevastopol. The agency also believes that the U.S. is “waging a hybrid war against Russia and has effectively become a party to the conflict.”

Yesterday, the Russian Ministry of Defense accused the U.S. of the Sevastopol attack. They noted that “all flight missions for American ATACMS operational-tactical missiles are programmed by American specialists based on their own satellite reconnaissance data.”

According to the latest data, debris from the downed ATACMS missile on the beach injured 155 people, including 27 children. Four people died, including two children.