2023-04-29 12:13:16
The pictures are impressive. A major fire broke out on Saturday at an oil depot in Sevastopol, the home port of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in annexed Crimea, local authorities said. According to them, a drone attack would be the cause.
“A fire is underway in an oil depot in Kazatchia Bay (…). According to initial information, it was caused by a drone attack,” Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvojayev wrote on Telegram. “No one was hurt,” he said.
Sixty firefighters were dispatched to the scene to fight the fire which is raging over an area of approximately 1,000 m² and should not be brought under control until the evening. “The situation is under control”, assured on Telegram Mikhail Razvojayev, affirming that “civilian infrastructures are not threatened”.
A total of four oil tanks were damaged in the attack and “burned out”, he told reporters, according to the state-run Ria Novosti news agency. The smoke is visible for tens of kilometers around.
Since the start 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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