A drone strike hit an oil reservoir in Crimea and set it ablaze, according to the Russia-installed governor of the Black Sea peninsula’s port city of Sevastopol, with suspicions that it was a Ukrainian attack though Kyiv has not claimed responsibility.
Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-appointed governor of Sevastopol, posted videos and photos of the blaze on his Telegram channel.
“According to preliminary information, the fire was caused by a UAV hit,” he wrote.
Photos posted on social media showed intense fire burning and thick black smoke billowing into the sky.
Sevastopol, a key naval base that houses Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, has been hit by a series of drone attacks since the Kremlin launched the invasion of Ukraine last year….