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Russia has admitted that Tuesday’s explosions at its army’s ammunition depot on Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula, which it annexed in 2014, were an act of sabotage.
On the morning of August 16, a military warehouse in the city of Dzhankoy, capital of the district of the same name, was damaged as a result of sabotage,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement quoted by the Russian news agency TASS.
The explosions at the warehouse damaged several civilian facilities, including a power line, electrical substations, the railway and several houses, according to the Russian command.
“There are no serious injuries. Necessary measures are being taken to remedy the consequences of sabotage.added the Ministry of Defense, according to the Spanish agency EFE.
The ministry did not identify those responsible for the sabotage.
In an earlier statement, Russian authorities said the incident took place at 6:15 a.m. local time (4:15 a.m. in Lisbon).
According to Crimean Governor Sergei Aksionov, who visited the site, two civilians were injured and authorities evacuated a nearby town as a precaution.
Dzhankoy is located about 90 kilometers north of Simferopol, the capital of the self-proclaimed Republic of Crimea, and close to Ukraine.
The head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriy Yermak, welcomed the occurrence of the explosions in Crimea and promised the “complete liberation of the Ukrainian territories”, in a statement on the Telegram social network, quoted by the French agency AFP.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhailo Podoliak also referred to the incident, writing on the social network Twitter that “the morning near Dzhankoy began with explosions.”
The normal country of Crimea is about the Black Sea, mountains, recreation and tourism, but Russian-occupied Crimea is about exploding ammunition depots and a high risk of death for invaders and thieves.” President Volodymyr Zelensky.
This incident comes a week after an explosion of ammunition destined for Russian military aircraft in a depot located at the Saki military airfield in western Crimea.
These explosions killed one person and injured others.
Source: Observadora
