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Huge fire in Crimea after drone attack

2023-04-29 10:45:28, Kosova & Bota CNA

Huge fire in Crimea after drone attack

A huge fire broke out on Saturday at a fuel depot in Sevastopol, the main port on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Moscow.

Authorities said the blast was the result of a drone strike.

Sevastopol is home to Russia's Black Sea fleet and has been hit by a series of drone attacks since Russia's offensive in Ukraine began last year.

Russian officials have blamed Ukraine for the attacks.

A spokesman for Ukraine's armed forces said there was no information to suggest Ukraine was responsible for the fire.

"A fuel depot is on fire in the Kazakia Bay district" of the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, the Russian-deposed governor of the peninsula, Mikhail Razvozhajev, said on Telegram.

He said the width of the area engulfed by the fire was "about 1,000 square meters" and released images of huge clouds of smoke rising into the air.

Razvozhayev called on Crimeans to "remain calm" and in a later post said "no one was hurt".

He said authorities have "the situation under control" and said there was no threat to civilian infrastructure.

Earlier this week, Russia said it had "repelled" a drone attack on the port.

Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014./ REL





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