The local occupation authorities did not specify the causes of the disaster, while Ukraine evokes for its part a “successful operation”, without giving further details.
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Some 2,200 civilians from annexed Crimea must be evacuated on Wednesday, July 19, due to a fire which broke out on the military ground of Starokrymsky, in the Kirov district. The four villages concerned have been placed under police protection, specify the Russian agencies, and an operational center has been set up to coordinate the transfers.
According to several Russian media, including Mash, the flames appeared in an ammunition depot. It will take another day or two to bring the situation under control, the head of the annexed Crimean Parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, warned on the Rossiya 24 channel. Several hours after the start of the disaster, explosions were still in progress, he said, but no civilian infrastructure was damaged.
A section of the Tavrida highway was also closed to traffic, as a safety measure. At this stage, the occupation authorities have not delivered a human toll, and have provided no details on the causes of the fire.
kyiv, for its part, claimed responsibility for an attack on this peninsula, which acts as a hub for Russian troops engaged in southern Ukraine. “A successful operation was carried out in occupied Crimea. The enemy hides the extent of the damage and the number of victims”commented the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov.
He accompanied his message with a short video showing a burning installation, already shared by several Russian accounts in the morning, but this document alone does not identify the infrastructure in question. The Kerch bridge, connecting the peninsula annexed to Russia, was hit Monday by a Ukrainian attack, which damaged it for the second time in ten months.