A gas tank within the port metropolis of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea was engulfed in a large hearth early Saturday, which an area Kremlin-appointed official mentioned was probably attributable to a drone strike.
The town on the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, is residence to the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet and is necessary to its dominance within the sea. Preliminary data indicated that the fireplace was attributable to a drone, the Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, wrote on the Telegram messaging app. He didn’t say who could be behind an assault.
Russian officers have blamed Ukrainian forces for repeated drone strikes on Sevastopol, on the peninsula’s southwestern tip. Ukraine sometimes maintains a coverage of strategic ambiguity about strikes in Crimea.
Pictures and video posted on-line, together with by the governor, confirmed a column of darkish smoke spewing into the sky and spreading throughout the encompassing areas.
The hearth at Kazachya Bay was burning an space of about 10,000 sq. toes, Mr. Razvozhaev, mentioned. He mentioned that there have been no casualties and that no civilian buildings had been threatened, however that the blaze was tough to include due to the big quantity of gas that was burning.
A day earlier, Russian forces fired cruise missiles at cities throughout Ukraine, inflicting greater than two dozen deaths, within the deadliest assault in months.
Whereas many of the barrage was intercepted by air defenses, those that bought by proved devastating. Within the central metropolis of Uman, an house constructing was lowered to rubble. At the least 23 individuals died, amongst them younger kids who had been sleeping.
Russia’s Protection Ministry mentioned in an announcement that it had used precision missiles in Friday’s assault, which achieved its purpose. Ukrainian officers mentioned the devastation of a metropolis removed from the entrance strains had been supposed to sow terror throughout the nation.
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Russian shelling: In Ukraine’s southern Kherson area, shelling within the city of Bilozerka hit a hospital and several other non-public houses, killing one 57-year-old girl in her own residence and injuring three extra, the regional navy administration mentioned on Friday night.