SEVASTOPOL: A huge ball of fire is raging in Crimea after a suspected Ukrainian aerial drone strike hit a major fuel depot in the heart of an annexed naval port Sevastopol today. Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev on early Saturday took to Telegram confirming the fire at a fuel reserve in Kazazhya Bay district. The fire comes five days after Russian officials said they had fended off a drone attack by the Ukrainian military in the same area.
Videos on social media showed huge flames and a mushroom-like black cloud from a major fire triggered by two explosions in Cossack Bay, in the Crimean Peninsula. According to sources, four giant storage tanks erupted at the Sevastopol oil depot hit by a Ukrainian strike. 18 fire fighting teams were rushed to the inferno as soon as the fuel reserve was impounded.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, during Friday’s Russian barrage killed at least 25 were killed in the first large-scale air strike nearly two months later by the Russian military. The attack came against the backdrop of Ukraine’s preparation for a counteroffensive against Putin’s aggression. Ukraine has repeatedly declared its intention to retake the Crimean peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014 to international outcry.
Scores of fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the massive fire that erupted at a residential building after a missile was hit in the central town of Uman- a popular Jewish habitat. Rescue workers clambered through a huge pile of smoldering rubble searching for survivors and retrieving dead bodies.
According to officials, at least 23 civilians including 4 children died in the apartment home to 109 residents.
Videos of the assault in the southern city of Dnipro, emerged where a middle-aged woman and a two-year-old child were killed.