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Reports of “black smoke”, which followed the sounds of explosions at a Russian airbase in Crimea, specifically at Gvardeskoye, in the center of the peninsula, reports the Reuters agency, citing the Russian newspaper Kommersant.
According to the newspaper’s source, local occupation authorities are investigating the possibility of an attack by a small unmanned aerial vehicle (most likely a drone) on an ammunition depot.
A fire that caused a munitions explosion also broke out earlier in the morning at another Russian military base on the Ukrainian peninsula that Russia owns and has annexed since 2014, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
The fire broke out around 06:15 Greek time in a temporary munitions warehouse at a Russian base in the Giankoi area, in the northern part of Crimea, the ministry said in a statement, cited by Russian news agencies.
“After the fire, there was an explosion of ammunition,” he notes.
According to the governor of Crimea, Sergei Aksionov, who went to the scene, two civilians were injured while the evacuation of the residents of a neighboring village was in progress.
These incidents come a week after the explosion of ammunition intended for the air force in a warehouse located in the vicinity of the Saki military airport in the western part of Crimea.
Ukraine has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the series of explosions on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula in 2014.
Source: Capital
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