The Ministry of Defense of Russia called the ammunition explosions in the village of Maiske (Dzhankoy district) is a "sabotage".
This was reported by the Russian state publication RIA.
The "sabotage" affected civilian facilities, power lines, a power station, and a railway track. There are no "seriously injured" people, the Ministry of Defense reported.
Yurii Hnat, the spokesman of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, called these explosions is "non-observance of fire safety rules."
"Ukraine is happy about this. Dzhankoy is one more airfield where the Russians have concentrated attack helicopters and other military equipment. We hope that the enemy will lose equipment and personnel. It is too early to talk about Russian losses, but our intelligence already has some data. Everyone of them will see the satellite images," Yurii Hnat added.
The permanent representative of Ukraine in Crimea, Tamila Tasheva, reported that after the explosion, long exit queues from the peninsula.
- On the morning of August 16, the Ministry of Defense of Russia reported a detonation at the temporary ammunition storage site in the village of Maiske (Dzhankoy district). The explosion damaged the railway, the route of trains heading to Crimea from Russia has already been changed: the trains will stop at “Vladyslavivka” station (a little more than 100 km from Dzhankoy).