A fuel storage facility caught fire in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. spread over an area of approximately 1,000 square meters
This morning (April 29) local time. A fuel storage facility caught fire in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. This is a region of Ukraine annexed by Russia in 2014.
The Russian-appointed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvosayev, said the fire had engulfed an area of about 1,000 square meters. The cause of this fire was the work of a “drone”.
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He added that the tank was in Cossack Bay. He added that fire crews are doing their best to extinguish the fire. Which has a level 4 severity, with the fire still burning but under control and at the moment, no injuries or deaths have been reported. And it is not an obstacle to the fuel supply in Sevastopol.
“The four fuel tanks that were attacked were almost completely burned … The situation is under control of all our firefighters and workers,” Razvosayev said.
Images shared on social media showed flames engulfing fuel storage tanks and thick plumes of black smoke billowing over the city.
Since Russia’s full invasion of its neighbor in February 2022, Sevastopol has been subject to repeated airstrikes. Most of Russia blames Ukraine.
The Ukrainian army did not respond to the fire. As in the past, they rarely come out to admit whether the attack on the Crimea region was done by Ukraine or not.
Compiled from Al Jazeera/CNN
Image from AFP
