A fire at a military facility in Crimea has forced local authorities to evacuate over 2,000 people in nearby villages.
“The temporary evacuation of residents of four localities adjacent to the military site in the Kirovsky district is planned. That’s more than 2,000 people,” said Crimean Governor Aksyonov.
No casualties were reported in the fire, which local officials said set an ammunition depot ablaze, causing multiple explosions. Aksyonov said later in the day that the situation would return to normal within one day.
The cause of the explosion is not clear. The incident comes a day after Russia said it downed a series of Ukrainian drones that were trying to target Crimea. Russian President Vladimir Putin said whatever the cause of the fire needed to be “dealt with.”
Media reports said earlier in the day that the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, took credit for the fire. But later, Ukrainian officials said the statement was fake and that Kyiv has not claimed responsibility for the attack.
The incident also came after Ukrainian forces attacked the Crimean Bridge that links the peninsula to the Russian mainland, which killed two civilians and injured a child. Russia responded to the attack by launching missile and drone strikes in southern Ukraine.
Putin has not cut the routes into Ukraine yet.
However…….
He has announced all shipping on the Black Sea is to be considered as shipping military armaments and he will start policing that, so I have a suspicion there’s going be some very important bridges taken out on the Ukrainian side of a few borders really soon.
Yes. Putin has been waiting until right now to start conquering Ukraine! Hahaha
No he has not hit trade routes into Ukraine. Do you even read the comments you comment on?
I knew what you meant (even though you only wrote “routes”).
Tell you what, I’ll agree to apologize when Putin hits those routes if you’ll agree to apologize when he doesn’t. Sound good?
I’ll remind you of this (because you’re one of the informationally challenged people here): Those trade routes go through NATO countries. Do I need to explain that to you?
set an ammunition depot ablaze, causing multiple explosions
oops. are they running out of munitions like Biden said that uncle sam is?
or maybe Biden only said that to justify (in patriotic heads) the plan to send cluster bomb munitions to Ukraine
The article talks about Crimea ammo depot on fire and Putin and you have to bring Biden.
What is it about you guys that always have to say something negative about the US and Ukraine and never about Russia.
Rhetorical question.
It’s what anti US/ pro Russia folks here do.
Then call yourselves antiwar.
Bunch of phonies.
i brought up Biden because less than 1 week ago he said on the TV that the reason uncle sam will deliver cluster munitions to Ukraine is because the US is almost run out of regular munition stockpiles, and one aspect of this particular anti-war article is a report on a Russian ammunition depot having exploded. but you are not a real dummy, you just portray one when it suits you so you already knew what i was going to say here before i am actually saying it. and yet i felt compelled to say it anyway which makes me the actual dummy here. so kudos to you Agent Julio because you have managed to showcase your IQ once again.
Tankie logic. It MUST be bad for Biden and Ukraine when Russian stuff blows up. NOW Putin is REALLY gonna start his offensive!
What is it about you to only comment on Ukraine/Russia antiwar articles?