Russia accused Ukraine of finishing up Saturday’s drone assault on a gasoline depot in Crimea, the peninsula illegally annexed by the Kremlin in 2014. Ukraine hasn’t claimed accountability for the strike, which comes as Kyiv is getting ready for a protracted anticipated spring counteroffensive to retake territory seized by Moscow.
“The enemy … needed to take Sevastopol without warning, as ordinary on the sly, staging an assault within the morning,” the port metropolis’s Kremlin-appointed governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev, wrote on Telegram, with out offering proof for his declare. He stated that just one drone reached the gasoline depot — a second was destroyed by servicemen on surveillance responsibility — and the hearth has since been extinguished. No casualties had been reported.