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Satellite images show fires in Crimea after drone strikes

Nation

12 August, 11:09 AM

Several targets in temporarily occupied Crimea were struck during a drone attack overnight into Aug. 12, sparking large-scale fires, the Telegram channel Crimean Wind reported, citing satellite imagery.

One fire was recorded near a road interchange close to the village of Pervomayske, near Balaklava, where a bridge crosses over a railway line.

A second fire, according to the imagery, broke out near Vasili Beach, also near Balaklava.

Photo: Crimean Wind / Telegram
Photo: Crimean Wind / Telegram
Photo: Crimean Wind / Telegram

In northern Crimea, a fire broke out at a Russian military facility — a border outpost in the village of Rysove, in the Krasnoperekopsk district.

Mikhail Razvozhaev, the Russian-installed head of Sevastopol, had earlier claimed that debris from "downed drones" fell in several locations.

He said fires broke out in some parts of the city and that efforts to extinguish them were ongoing.

Photo: Crimean Wind / Telegram
Photo: Crimean Wind / Telegram
Photo: Crimean Wind / Telegram

On July 28, drones attacked occupied Crimea, striking a power substation in Feodosia.

On July 27, Razvozhaev said power supply restrictions had been introduced in occupied Sevastopol.

Overnight into July 26, Crimean Wind reported that a fire broke out at the Tavriiska thermal power plant near occupied Simferopol following a drone attack. The Russian-installed utility company Krymenergo acknowledged that some municipalities on the peninsula had lost power due to "external impact on power supply facilities." Reports of a "difficult situation" with electricity supply came from the northwest, east, and south of the occupied peninsula.

On July 24, Robert "Magyar" Brovdi, commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, said 19 energy facilities in Ukraine's temporarily occupied territories were struck between July 23 and 24, 17 of which were located in Russian-occupied Crimea.

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