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Installed, officials are saying they blame falling debris, but the images suggest that this is a direct hit. We dont know the further implications, whether in terms of who is in there. But this is a place where russia has really asserted its dominance. It is the Black Sea Fleet from which it has launched Missile Strikes across ukraine. It has blockaded ports. And this is a peninsula that russia annexed back in 2014. Its almost a cornerstone of russias invasion. And i think regardless of whether kyiv claims responsibility for this one, it did last week when it hit a dry dock with british Supplied Storm Shadow missiles destroying a submarine and a warship. It is clear ukraine is continuing with its strategy of trying to target sites in crimea to both undermine russias occupation, but also to support its continued ....
Progress. More on that story in a moment. As ukraine faces a second winter of war, it is suffering heavy losses on the battlefield, but the military does not release figures for those killed and injured. The bbc has been given access to one of the main hospitals receiving casualties from the front lines. Doctors there have treated more than 20,000 Wounded Soldiers since russias full scale invasion in february 2022, many of them amputees. From south eastern ukraine, our International Correspondent 0rla guerin reports. Sirens. Under a blanket of darkness, the wounded are brought in. On arrival each one is numbered. Each one a husband, a father or a son. This is the pain of a generation. Staff here treat 50 to 100 new casualties every day. Another badly wounded soldier has just been brought in. Hes in his 20s and one of his legs has already been amputated. This is ....