UPDATED: Explosions are being heard in the area of the Oktiabrske airfield in Crimea

The so-called "head" of the occupied peninsula has announced a drone attack

UPDATED at 1:14 p.m.:

The Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed that the Defence Forces of Ukraine have destroyed russian oil and ammunition depots in the temporarily occupied Oktiabrske in Crimea.


Explosions are heard in the area of the airfield in Oktiabrske, Crimea.

This is reported by Hromadske, citing russian media.

The so-called "head" of the temporarily occupied peninsula, Sergei Aksionov, announced that there had been drone attacks on infrastructure facilities in Krasnohvardiyske Raion.

According to Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko from the European Solidarity, a munitions depot in Oktiabrske is on fire. 

Additionally, russian media reported a suspension of traffic across the Crimean Bridge, without indicating the cause.

Background. Mind previously reported that putin had promised a "military response" to the undermining of the Crimean Bridge. The russian Ministry of Defence is already preparing "appropriate proposals".

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