After hours of intensive extinguishing work on Saturday, the fire in four oil tanks in the port city of Sevastopol in Crimea has been extinguished. Pictures from the scene showed a huge cloud of fire and smoke rising. According to the Russian-appointed mayor of the city, Mikhail Razvozjajev, the fire had spread around a thousand square meters. – Preliminary information suggests that the fire was caused by a Ukrainian drone attack. No injuries or deaths have been reported, he writes on Telegram. 25 killed in Ukraine Earlier this week, Razvozjayev claimed that the Russian military destroyed a Ukrainian drone that attempted to attack the port of Sevastopol. Another drone reportedly hit a block of flats in the city, but no one was injured. A spokesman for the Ukrainian defense told Reuters that he had no information to suggest that Ukraine was behind the attack, which comes a day after a large-scale Russian missile attack on Ukrainian cities. At least 25 people were killed, among them four children. Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula is the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and has been subject to repeated airstrikes since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. The peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014. Explosion cloud over Sevastopol Photo: Reuters
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