Moscow's senior representative in Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, confirmed that two people were wounded, railway traffic halted and about 2,000 people evacuated from a village near the military depot.
Smoke rises from a fire after an explosion at a temporary ammunition storage site of a military unit near the village of Mayskoye, Dzhankoi District, in the north of the Crimea, in Ukraine.Explosions rocked an ammunition depot and disrupted trains in Russian-annexed Crimea on Tuesday, the latest such incident in a region Moscow uses as a supply line for its war in Ukraine.
Last week, blasts at a military air base on Crimea's western coast caused extensive damage and destroyed several Russian warplanes. Moscow called that an accident, though simultaneous blasts left craters visible from space. Ukraine has not officially confirmed or denied responsibility for explosions in Crimea, though its officials have openly cheered incidents in territory that, until last week, appeared safe in Moscow's grip beyond range of attack.Risk of disaster at Europe's largest nuclear plant 'increasing every day', Ukrainian mayor warns
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