“In Evpatoria, presumably, the air defense system worked.

Crimea is under reliable protection,” he wrote in Telegram.

The day before, on August 18, the governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that, according to preliminary data, an unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down near the Belbek airport by means of air defense.

On the same day, there were reports of the work of air defense in Kerch.