Explosions rocked an ammunition depot and disrupted trains in Russian-annexed Crimea on Tuesday, the latest such incident in a region Moscow uses as a supply line for its war.
A view shows smoke rising above a transformer electric substation, which caught fire after a blast in the Dzhankoi district of Crimea on Tuesday.on Crimea's western coast caused extensive damage and destroyed several Russian war planes.
Ukraine has not officially confirmed or denied responsibility for explosions in Crimea, though its officials have openly cheered incidents in territory that, until last week, appeared safe in Moscow's grip beyond range of attack.Explosions reported in area of Russian air base in CrimeaWitnesses say they saw and heard several explosions coming from the direction of a Russian military air base in western Crimea, the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
"Operation 'demilitarization' in the precise style of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will continue until the complete de-occupation of Ukraine's territories," Yermak wrote on Telegram.In another incident on Tuesday, plumes of smoke were seen at a Russian military airbase near the settlement of Hvardiyske in central Crimea, Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported.
Both sides have blamed each other for risks to Europe's largest nuclear facility, which Russia has seized though Ukrainian technicians operate it. He cited the AUKUS security pact between Australia, Britain and the United States as evidence of Western attempts to build a NATO-style bloc in the Asia-Pacific region.