Several explosions rocked an airbase on Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula on Tuesday, local sources said.
Citing Viktoria Kazmirova, deputy head of the local administration, Russian state-run news agency TASS reported that blasts occurred at the Saki military airdrome near Novofedorivka, in western Crimea on the Black Sea coast.
Oleg Kryuchkov, an adviser to Crimea’s leadership, confirmed reports of the explosions.
“So far, I can only confirm that several blasts occurred near Novofedorivka,” he said, according to TASS.
The Saki military airdrome near Novofedorivka is used by the Russian Defense Ministry, including for naval aircraft, the report added.
Russian troops annexed Crimea in 2014 in a move not recognized by most other countries. The peninsula, however, has been largely spared from the intense shelling seen in other areas of eastern and southern Ukraine since Russia invaded the country at the end of February.
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