(Dan Tri) – An oil storage facility in the city of Sevastopol caught fire, suspected of being attacked by a drone on the morning of April 29.
Fire at an oil warehouse in Sevastopol city (Photo: RT).
`All security and rescue forces are at the scene. The fire area is about 1,000 square meters,` Mr. Mikhail Razvozhayev, governor of the Sevastopol city government, announced on Telegram at around 5 a.m. April 29
Mr. Razvozhayev said that a drone attack caused the oil storage facility in Sevastopol to burn fiercely.
Many videos shared by witnesses show a large fire breaking out while it was still dark, but there are currently no reports of casualties.
Russia’s oil warehouse in Crimea burned fiercely (Source: RT).
Earlier this week, the city of Sevastopol became the target of two naval UAV attacks, of which one was destroyed by Russian forces, the other exploded on its own in the harbor outside.
The city of Sevastopol is located on the southwest coast of Crimea, an area annexed by Russia after a 2014 referendum. This strategic port city is home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and has been targeted many times.
At the end of March, suicide boats departing from several ports in southern Ukraine organized attacks on warships of the Black Sea Fleet.
Most recently, at dawn on April 24, the Sevastopol military port faced an attack from Ukrainian suicide boats.
Multiple layers of fence have been built at the entrance to the Russian military port of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula (Photo: Maxar).
Russian authorities accused Ukraine of being behind the attacks on Crimea, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky repeatedly vowed to take back the peninsula.
The Russian military is said to be urgently reinforcing the defense system in the Crimean peninsula to prevent raids by Ukrainian counterattack forces.
Based on satellite images obtained on April 25, the Russian army is said to have dug more trenches and built more fortifications to stop Ukraine’s advance in Crimea.
Additionally, some heavy Russian military equipment appears to have been moved from Crimea.