Explosions shift the attention of the Ukraine War to the Russian-annexed Crimea as Vladimir Putin lashes US
Explosions shift the attention of the Ukraine War to the Russian-annexed Crimea as Vladimir Putin lashes US
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Crimea: On Tuesday, the focus of world interest in Russia's conflict in Ukraine shifted once again to the country's occupied Crimea peninsula, where a mysterious fire and explosion at an ammunition storage facility set Moscow on fire. Marked the second incident in the week.
State news agency RIA said two people were injured, but the Russian Defense Ministry claimed there were no serious casualties in the blasts in the village of Meskoy in northern Crimea. Along with this, a fire was also reported from the agency at a transformer substation 20 km away.

According to the ministry, the fire broke out in "a site for the temporary storage of ammunition of one of the military units".
The ministry said the cause of the fire was not immediately known, but it resulted in an explosion of stored ammunition.

The Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea is the base of Russia's Black Sea Fleet and is a popular destination for summer vacations. Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, which was not recognized by most other countries.
Last week, explosions at a military air base in the western Crimean city of Novofedorivka seriously damaged and destroyed several Russian warplanes.

Moscow referred to it as an accident, despite the fact that multiple simultaneous explosions at the base left the crater that could be seen from space.
At the time, Ukrainian officials refrained from publicly taking responsibility for the explosions, while ridiculing Russia's theory that the fire broke out in ammunition at the Saki airbase and was caused by a careless smoker.
Analysts also noted that this explanation is illogical and that Ukrainians may have attacked the base with anti-ship missiles.

Reminder: Crimea in a normal country is all about the Black Sea, mountains, recreation and tourism; However, warehouses in Russia-occupied Crimea carry a high risk of explosion and death for infiltrators and thieves, Ukraine's presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolik tweeted on Tuesday after information about the explosion in Meskoye.
Russia has used Crimea to supply military hardware to its troops in what it refers to as a "special military operation" in Ukraine.
Before an expected Ukrainian counterattack, Kyiv seeks to sabotage Russian supply lines. Meskoye, which is on the main rail line linking Russia and Crimea, has served as a supply point for Russian forces in southern Ukraine.

If the explosion were an attack, Kyiv would have gained the ability to strike deep into Russian territory because it is beyond the range of the main rockets that Western countries have so far accepted Ukraine to provide.
Millions have been forced to flee, thousands have died, and nearly six months of conflict have widened the geopolitical gap between Moscow and the West.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused the United States of attempting to prolong the conflict in Ukraine and of trying to ignite conflicts around the world, including Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

"The situation in Ukraine demonstrates America's efforts to continue this conflict. In televised remarks, Putin addressed the opening ceremony of a security conference in Moscow via video link." And they work in exactly the same way. do, which increases the likelihood of conflict. Asia, Africa and Latin America," he said.

The American adventure in Taiwan is not just the journey of an irresponsible politician, he continued, but a deliberate, conscious American strategy to weaken and destabilize the situation in the region and the world.
The visit was, he claimed, a "shameless display of disrespect for the sovereignty of other countries and its (Washington's) international obligations," he claimed.
"We consider this a carefully thought-out provocation," Putin said.

Speaking at the security conference, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that NATO had "multiplied" its military deployment in Eastern and Central Europe and that military operations against Ukraine were being planned by the United States and the United Kingdom. . was.

He said that Moscow does not intend to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

From a military standpoint, Ukraine does not require the use of nuclear weapons to accomplish its objectives, according to Shoigu.
He continued, "The main goal of Russian nuclear weapons is to prevent a nuclear attack.
According to both sides, there was no significant change in the situation elsewhere on the battlefield.
As well as continuing Russian rocket and shelling attacks in the eastern Donbass region, Ukraine reported that it had successfully thwarted Russian attempts to advance closer to the Lisichansk oil refinery in the Luhansk region of the Donbass.

On Monday, Ukraine claimed it had attacked a bridge near the occupied city of Melitopol as well as a base used by a Russian paramilitary group.
According to Sergei Gede, governor of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine, Vagotle information available about the mysterious paramilitary organisation that is thought to have ties to Putin's close friend and Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin.

It has been established that Wagner paramilitaries are present in many other nations, particularly in Africa, including Libya, Mali, and Syria.

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