A gas depot within the port metropolis of Sevastopol, on the Crimean peninsula illegally annexed by Russia, caught hearth on Saturday, inflicting a serious blaze.
Preliminary data instructed the fireplace was attributable to a drone strike, Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russia-installed governor of Sevastopol, wrote on Telegram.
He stated the fireplace at a gas reserve in Sevastopol’s Kazachya Bay district engulfed “round 1,000 sq. meters,” however that the scenario was underneath management and nobody was damage.
Sevastopol, which homes the naval base for Russia’s Black Sea fleet, has repeatedly been focused in air assaults following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine final yr. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
A spokesperson for Ukraine’s armed forces advised Reuters that he didn’t have any data to recommend Ukraine was answerable for the fireplace.
