KYIV, Ukraine -- A huge fire erupted at an oil depot in Crimea after it was hit by of Ukraine's drones, a Russia-appointed official there stated Saturday, the latest in a sequence of assaults at the annexed peninsula as Russia braces for an anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-established governor of Sevastopol, a port town in Crimea, published motion pictures and pictures of the blaze on his Telegram channel.
Razvozhayev stated the fire on the town's harbor become assigned the best ranking in terms of how complex it will likely be to extinguish. However, he pronounced that the open blaze were contained.
Razvozhayev stated the oil depot was attacked by “ enemy drones," and 4 oil tanks burned down. A third drone was shot down from the sky, and one extra become deactivated through radio-digital means, according to Crimea's Moscow-appointed governor, Sergei Aksyonov.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move that most of the world considered illegal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in an interview this week that his country will seeking to reclaim the peninsula in the imminent counteroffensive.
The assault pronounced in Sevastopol comes an afternoon after Russia fired extra than 20 cruise missiles and drones at Ukraine, killing at the least 23 people. Almost all the victims died while missiles slammed into an apartment building in the town of Uman, located in central Ukraine.
Six kids were among the dead, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko stated Saturday, adding that 22 of the 23 bodies recovered had been identified. Two girls remained missing, Klymenko stated.
Russian forces launched more drones at Ukraine overnight. Ukraine's Air Force Command stated Iranian-made self-exploding Shahed drones were intercepted, and a reconnaissance drone was shot down on Saturday morning.
The town has been subject to everyday assault attempts with drones.
Earlier this week, Razvozhayev pronounced that the Russian navy destroyed a Ukrainian sea drone that tried to assault the harbor and another one blew up, shattering home windows in several apartment buildings, but not causing any other damage.
Ukraine's navy intelligence spokesperson, Andriy Yusov, told the RBC Ukraine news site on Saturday that the oil depot fire turned into “God's punishment” for “the murdered civilians in Uman, including 5 kids.”
He stated that more than 10 tanks containing oil products for Russia's Black Sea Fleet had been destroyed in Sevastopol, but stopped short of acknowledging Ukraine's responsibility for a drone assault. The difference between the number of tanks Yusov and Razvozhayev gave could not be immediately reconciled.
After previous assaults on Crimea, Kyiv also wouldn't openly declare responsibility, however emphasized that the country had the right to strike any target in reaction to Russian aggression.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces shelled the city of Nova Kakhovka, according to Moscow-installed government in the Russian-occupied a part of southern Ukraine's Kherson province. “Severe artillery fire” cut off energy in the town, the officers stated.
The Ukrainian-controlled part of the province also came under fire on Saturday. Russian shelling in the vicinity of the village of Bilozerka killed one individual and wounded another, according to the Kherson prosecutor’s office.
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