“At the moment, the detonation continues.

There are two victims among the civilian population, nothing threatens their lives,” he said.

According to Aksyonov, the evacuation of residents is currently underway, to ensure the safety of people, they are being taken out of the five-kilometer zone.

As Krym 24 reported, on the morning of August 16, users of social networks reported that a fire had occurred in the village of Maiskoye, Dzhankoy district.

The head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that he had left for the place of the emergency.

According to the head of the administration of the rural settlement Nikolai Karpets, about two thousand residents were evacuated due to the detonation of ammunition in the village of Maiskoye, Dzhankoy district of Crimea.