Explosions and fires reported across occupied Crimea after mass drone attack

Updated at 8:25 a.m.: A power plant in Simferopol caught fire after the night attack, according to OSINT investigators.

ASTRA, an independent Russian Telegram channel, confirmed the fires based on footage from local monitoring channel Exilenova+.

Simferopol Thermal Power Plant generates 30% of Simferopol’s electricity and supplies power to the neighboring villages of Hresivskyi, Bakachyk-Kyiat (Komsomolske), Aeroflotskyi, and parts of Molodizhne.

Updated at 6:32 a.m.: Crimean Wind, citing its local subscribers, reported several strikes on a 330/220/110/35 kV electrical substation in Sevastopol, which sparked a large-scale fire and sent a massive plume of smoke rising into the sky.

Sevastopol itself remains without power, local channel subscribers reported.

Updated at 5:59 a.m.: Crimean Wind, based on satellite footage, reported that a large fire broke out south of Kerch near a military compound – specifically, two fires of unknown origin were spotted.

On the night of June 24, local residents reported hearing explosions at 2:08 a.m., 2:23 a.m., 3:34 a.m., and 3:36 a.m.

Updated at 5:09 a.m.: The so-called “governor” of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev confirmed the entire city remains “temporarily” without power.

Updated at 4:15 a.m.: Local subscribers from Crimean Wind reported an explosion near Cape Fiolent in Sevastopol. Subscribers later reported drone strikes on the Balaklava Thermal Power Plant.

Power outages were later reported across Sevastopol as a large part of the city was plunged into darkness, according to Crimean Wind subscribers.

The eyewitnesses also reported seeing a Russian mobile fire group attempting to shoot down a “good” [Ukrainian - ed.] drone in Sevastopol’s Sovetsky district. Explosions were also heard in Yany Kapu (Krasnoperekopsk).

Loud explosions were reported in Simferopol and its suburbs.

“Subscribers from Simferopol said their apartment windows and doors are shaking from the explosions,” Crimean Wind wrote.

Local subscribers later reported an attack near a railway station in the village of Kirovske.

A massive fire broke out at a fuel terminal in the marine fishing port in Kerch following a UAV attack on the night of June 21. Russian occupational authorities suspended fuel sales at local gas stations.

Ukraine’s General Staff later reported strike on an oil terminal in occupied Kerch and Port Kavkaz in Russia overnight on June 21. Ukrainian forces also attacked Tyumen oil refinery, about 1,240 miles from Ukraine’s border, on June 20.

Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, published footage on Telegram that he said showed strikes on fuel storage tanks at the Kerch oil terminal. He apologized to Ukrainians living in occupied territory for “the constant air raid alerts, closed bridges and roads, darkness, noise and stress.” He urged them to stay safe and remain away from military sites and anything flammable.

Drones attacked a number of targets in temporarily occupied Crimea overnight on June 22. Local residents reported explosions and air defense activity. It was reported that Tavriisk Thermal Power Plant, an FSB border service building in Armyansk, and fuel depots in Feodosia came under attack.

Crimean Wind reported that a railroad, an oil terminal, and an S-300/S-400 system were struck overnight on June 23.

A fire broke out at the Yuzhnaya railway station in Kerch. Satellite footage revealed several fires in the Kerch Peninsula and Port Kavkaz.