(ANSA-AFP) - MOSCOW, JUL 21 - Russia's navy carried out a
live fire "exercise" in the Black Sea, Moscow's defence ministry
said Friday, days after the Kremlin declared it would consider
ships travelling to Ukraine through the waterway potential
military targets. A missile boat from Moscow's Black Sea Fleet
"carried out live firing of anti-ship cruise missiles at the
target ship" in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, Russia's
defence ministry said on Telegram. "The target ship was
destroyed as a result of a missile strike," it said. Ships and
fleet aviation had also "worked out actions to isolate the area
temporarily closed to navigation, and also carried out a set of
measures to detain the offending ship," it added. It did not
specify exactly where the exercise had taken place. (ANSA-AFP).
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