Drone strikes hit Crimea ammunition depots, triggering evacuations and closing bridges. Photo/Deccan Herald
SEVASTOPOL – Drone attacks on ammunition depots in Crimea prompted authorities to evacuate a 5km radius and temporarily suspend road traffic on the bridge linking the peninsula to Russia. This was stated by the regional governor who was appointed Russia on Saturday.
Ukraine says its soldiers have destroyed an oil depot and Russian army depots in what it calls the temporarily occupied Oktiabrske district in central Crimea.
“The attack caused an ammunition depot to explode,” Russia’s appointed governor, Sergei Aksyonov, said, adding no damage or casualties were reported. ReutersSunday (23/7/2023).
Footage shared by state media showed a plume of thick gray smoke at the site.
Aksyonov later said that all rail traffic in the affected areas, which had been temporarily disrupted, had resumed normal operations.
Russian news agencies, citing the Ministry of Health, reported that 12 people required medical assistance and four were taken to hospital.
Russia seized and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, eight years before launching its full-scale invasion of the country.
The brief stoppage of traffic on the Crimea Bridge, about 180 km east of the drone incident, comes five days after an explosion there killed two people and damaged a section of road, the second major attack on the bridge since the start of the war.
2023-07-23 00:15:44
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