The port area of the city of Berdyansk in Ukraine, is claimed to be in full swing, according to The Guardian.
They write the information first came from local Ukrainian media, such as NEXTA TV, which reported that a Russian ship has been hit, but the information has not been confirmed by independent sources.
The Ukrainian navy says they have destroyed Orsk, Russia’s stranded landing aid ship, which is docked in the occupied coastal city of Berdyansk, writes BBC journalist Myroslava Petsa on Twitter.
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Ukrainian authorities later confirmed the incident in a posts on Facebook.
A large “parachute ship named Orsk” from the Black Sea Fleet was occupied by occupiers in the occupied Russian port of Berdyansk, it says.
The post has received great support in the comments field and has already been shared over 6000 times.
Pictures and videos of the large flames and the thick smoke have spread rapidly on social media. Anton Gerashchenko, senior adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, has shared a photo, allegedly of the fire, on his own Telegram account.
– A warehouse with rocket and artillery weapons in Russian-occupied Berdyansk, Gerashchenko writes in the post.
Berdyansk is located on the Azov Sea, 75 kilometers southwest of the exposed port city of Mariupol.
The city has in recent days opened a humanitarian corridor from which civilians have been able to flee, after the Russian forces took over the city on 27 February.
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