Crimea: fire at an oil depot in Sevastopol after a drone attack
A burning fuel depot in Sevastopol, Crimea, April 29, 2023. © Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev telegram channel via AP
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A major fire broke out Saturday at an oil depot in Sevastopol, the home port of Russia's Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea, after a drone attack, local authorities said.
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A fire is underway at an oil depot in Kazatchia Bay [...] tag. According to initial reports, it was provoked by a drone attack," Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram, stressing that "no one was injured." Sixty firefighters have been dispatched to the scene to fight the fire, which is raging over an area of about 1,000 m2 and should not be brought under control until the evening, he added.
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The situation is under control," Razvozhayev said on Telegram, saying that "civilian infrastructure is not threatened." Quoted by the state-run Ria Novosti news agency, he later told reporters that a total of four oil tanks were damaged in the attack and "burned."
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Since the launch of the Russian offensive in Ukraine in February 2022, Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, has repeatedly been the target of aerial and naval drone attacks. In mid-April, the authorities announced the cancellation of the celebrations of May 1 and 9 (the official date of the end of the Second World War in Russia) on the peninsula, citing "security problems".
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