Crimea Blasts: Russia Blames Sabotage

An armaments store at another military site has been struck by several explosions, a week after what appeared to be an attack by the Ukrainian military on a Russian military post in the occupied Crimea.

Blaming sabotage, Russian officials said a fire that also damaged a power plant and a railway was the cause of the blasts in the Dzhankoi area. Russian aeroplanes were destroyed last week by a series of explosions at a base on the Black Sea coast of Crimea. That incident was not acknowledged by Ukraine.

Mykhailo Podolyak, a presidential office adviser, described the most recent occurrence as "demilitarisation in action," suggesting that the explosions were not unintentional. Early in 2014, Russia invaded Crimea from Ukraine and subsequently annexed it.

Russia made no mention of the type of sabotage utilised in the attack on Tuesday. The security agency FSB reported that six electricity pylons inside of Russia were also detonated this month by Ukrainian saboteurs.The Kursk nuclear plant's "technical process of operating" has been impacted by the attacks in the Kurchatov region, which is around 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Ukraine's northeastern border, it was stated.

The plant's operator, Rosenergoatom, has contested the FSB report and claimed that a failure at a sub-station outside of the nuclear power plant's jurisdiction is to blame for the decreased output. According to the Russian defence ministry, the explosions that occurred in northern Crimea on Tuesday occurred at a temporary ammunition storage facility on a base close to the hamlet of Maiske at around 06:15 Moscow time (03:15 GMT).

The Russian-appointed regional head Sergei Aksyonov visited the scene and said that 2,000 people had been relocated from a nearby village and two persons had been injured, despite the Moscow defence ministry's claim that there had been no "major" casualties. "One man was crushed by a wall, and the other sustained a shrapnel wound. Fortunately, their lives are not in jeopardy "he explained.