Ukraine sets fire to a fuel depot in Sevastopol after a drone strike

A drone attack caused a fire this Saturday in a fuel tank in the port of Sevastopolbase of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the annexed Crimean peninsula.

“A fuel tank is on fire (…) According to preliminary data, the fire occurred due to the impact of a drone,” he reported on Saturday Mikhail Razvozhaevgovernor of Sevastopol, in a statement reproduced by the official news agency RIA Novosti.

The fire spread over an area of ​​almost a thousand square meters, but was finally put out by the emergency services.

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The attack, which spoiled fuel in four of the tankers, did not cause any injuries or pose a danger to civilian infrastructure in the area.

In addition, the governor stressed that the incident will not affect the supply of fuel to the cityannexed by Russia in 2014, like the rest of the peninsula bathed by the Black Sea, reports efe.

In recent months, the Russian authorities have denounced numerous Ukrainian attacks against the peninsula, mostly with assault drones.

For this reason, both Crimea and the port of Sevastopol have suspended the military parade on May 9, which celebrates Victory Day over Nazi Germany annually.

This week the Federal Security Service said it had aborted a bomb attack against the naval hospital in Simferopol, the peninsular capital.

With a view to the expected Ukrainian counteroffensive, the Crimean leader, Sergei Axiónov, ordered the construction of a fortified defensive line between the peninsula and the rest of Ukraine.