- The causes of the fire that caused the explosion are unknown.
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| Explosions at an airfield in Crimea. / Press Office of Head of Crimea H |
A temporary ammunition depot of the Russian Army exploded on Tuesday in the Crimean peninsula due to a fire, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. The fire that caused the explosion and whose causes are unknown occurred in a military unit located next to the town of Maiskoe.
The authorities at the moment have not reported that there have been victims in the incident, which according to the local administration forced the evacuation of about 2,000 people from Maiskoe.
"I have left in the direction of Maiskoe. The causes of what happened are being investigated. I will inform you as soon as we have data," the head of the Crimean administration, Sergei Aksionov, wrote on his Telegram channel.
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The local Kriminform agency assured that fire also broke out at the Dzhankoe electrical substation, the capital of the homonymous district where Maiskoe is located.
The detonation of the ammunition depot comes a week after a series of explosions at a military airfield also on the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014.
Ukraine, which denied attacking the airfield, said the blasts destroyed a dozen Russian warplanes. Moscow, for its part, said the explosions at the airfield were due to an accidental fire.
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