Occupiers of Crimea confirm that ammunition is being detonated near Dzhankoi

OLENA ROSHCHINA – TUESDAY, 16 AUGUST, 09:41

The Ministry of Defence of Russia confirmed that a fire broke out at an ammunition site near the village of Maiske in the Dzhankoi district of occupied Crimea.

Source: RBC with reference to the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and other bodies of the occupation authorities; [Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency] TASS

Quote from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation: "On 16 August, at around 06:15 in the area of Maiske settlement (Dzhankoi district), a fire broke out on the territory of a site for the temporary storage of ammunition of one of the military units. As a result of the fire, the ammunition stored there was detonated."

Details: The causes of the fire are being specified.

The Russian Defence Ministry said that there were no casualties.

So-called "head of Crimea" Sergey Aksyonov reported that two people were injured.

According to him, the detonation of ammunition in the Dzhankoi district continues, and the residents of the village have been evacuated.

Quote from Aksyonov: "The detonation is currently ongoing. There are two casualties among the civilian population, their lives are not in danger.

Residents are being evacuated, to ensure safety, people are being taken outside a five-kilometre zone."

Details: About 2,000 people have already been evacuated from Maiske.

The Maiske administration said that a military facility was stationed near the village.

"This is a former farm. Temporary military deployment. Detonation of ammunition," said the TASS source.

Andrii Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine and his adviser Mykhailo Podoliak responded to the explosions next to Dzhankoi in social media. Yermak posted a picture with the caption "I really like these blasts" [here Yermak uses the word ‘бавовна’ which also means ‘cotton’ in Ukrainian, which has since become a meme – ed.] , and Podoliak wrote that explosions at ammunition storages are "demilitarisation as it is". 

Earlier in the morning, the mass media reported on explosions and a fire in the Dzhankoi area, and one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatars, Refat Chubarov, citing sources on the peninsula, said that "an ammunition depot was hit."

In addition, there was a fire at a transformer substation in the north of Crimea, it was extinguished.

According to some information, a railway passes nearby, which the Russians use to deliver military equipment to the mainland of Ukraine.

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