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The Ukrainian armed forces attacked the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula and the city of Sevastopol with missiles on Wednesday, Russian officials said. The Russian Defence Ministry in Moscow said that Ukraine used 20 cruise missiles. Of them, it claimed to have intercepted 17 over the Black Sea and three more over Crimea. The information could not be independently verified. Debris fell on a military site near the village of Lyubimovka north of Sevastopol, the statement said. The large Russian air base at Belbek is located there, but its name was not mentioned. “No aircraft equipment was damag…