Russia says navy carried out live fire exercise in Black Sea

(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).