A fire broke out in the early hours of Tuesday at the port of the city of Feodosia, on the coast of Crimea in the Black Sea, while according to the Russian Air Force and the appointed by the Russia her skipper heard successive powerful explosions.
In fact, the explosions are depicted in various videos circulating on the internet.
Sergei Aksyonov, the Moscow-installed governor of Crimea, said via Telegram that “the port area has been cordoned off, the explosions have stopped and the fire (they caused) has been contained”.
“All competent emergency services are on site” and “Residents of adjacent houses will be evacuated urgently” from the area, Mr. Axionov added at around 04:15 (local time; 03:15 Greek time), more than an hour after the attack.
A bit later, the head of Ukraine's air force claimed responsibility for the strike in Feodosiawhich Kiev rarely does immediately when it comes to incursions into Russian-controlled territory.
Information from Ukrainian media, in particular the digital edition of the newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, reports that target of the strike was a ship carrying “Iranian munitions”.
Claims of shooting down a landing craft in Crimea
The head of its air force Ukrainian announced that a landing ship of the Russian Black Sea fleet, which, according to information from Kiev, was carrying Iranian-designed drones, a weapon of choice for Russian forces in the war, was destroyed, launching a missile strike at the port of Feodosia, on the Crimean peninsula.
“The Great Navatcherkask” it was the ship that was “destroyed” by “air force pilots”, Mykola Oleschuk said via Telegram, thanking his men for their “excellent work” and expressing satisfaction that Russia's Black Sea fleet is getting “smaller and smaller”.
The Ukrainian Air Force also said the landing craft was “reportedly” carrying Shahed-type unmanned aerial vehicles.which Russia unleashes en masse against Ukraine.
Mr Oleschuk uploaded video capturing the moment a massive explosion and fire broke out on a ship at the Russian naval base in Feodosia, on the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Source: News Beast
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