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Explosion in May

A series of explosions at military facilities thundered in Crimea on August 16 - in the ammunition warehouse near the village of Mayskoye in the Dzhankoy district and on the territory of the military air base in the village of Guards under Simferopol.

Clubs of black smoke rise above the military airfield "Guards". A source of Kommersant said that a version of the drone attack on the ammunition warehouse is checked.

About 6 in the morning there was a series of explosions in May - on an old farm, which the Russian military used as a temporary warehouse. The explosions lasted several hours. At the same time, a transformer substation caught fire in Dzhankoy. The occupation "Head of Crimea" Sergei Aksenov said that two civilians were injured. The inhabitants of the May and the village of Azov (2-3 thousand people) are evacuated by buses, they are placed in schools of neighboring villages. Some of the inhabitants left on their own.

As a result of the explosions, the railway track in May was damaged. The route of trains on the Dzhanka -Feodosia branch was changed: passengers are planted at the Vladislavovka station.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that explosions in May were the result of sabotage. "The damage is caused to a number of civilian objects, including power lines, a power station, a railway track, as well as a number of residential buildings. There are seriously injured," the department said.

A senior Ukrainian source told The New York Times that an elite sabotage unit has been operating in Crimea.

“We can objectively predict ... that excesses of this type or, as the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation calls them,“ sabotage ”will only increase,” said Mikhail Podolyak, head of the head of the Ukrainian Presidential office.