"Today, an ATACMS missile was shot down over the Sea of Azov, flying towards the Crimean bridge. The air defense servicemen worked quickly and accurately. Another provocation by the Kiev regime has been thwarted," he wrote on Telegram.

On December 21, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that air defense systems destroyed a Ukrainian missile over the Sea of Azov. The missile was intercepted at about 15:00 Moscow time.

At 15:08 it became known that the movement of vehicles on the Crimean bridge was temporarily blocked. A little more than an hour later, it was resumed.