In Dzhankoy district, an explosion of stored ammunition occurred as a result of a fire, the ministry said. It said “no one was seriously injured”.
On the morning of August 16, near the village of Maiskoye in the occupied Crimea, a fire broke out on the territory of a bunded site for the temporary storage of ammunition in a military unit. This was reported by RIA Novosti in connection with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
It is known that because of the fire, the explosion of the stored ammunition happened.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, “there were no serious victims.” Measures are being taken to extinguish the fire, its causes are being investigated.
According to the “head of the government” of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, two civilians were injured as a result of an explosion in the Dzhankoy district.
“There is no danger to their lives,” he said, adding that people were evacuated within a radius of 5 km from the center of the explosions.
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Explosions were reported earlier in Crimea. It was later learned that two incidents had occurred simultaneously: a fire at a transformer substation and an explosion at an ammunition depot.
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