Explosions at Crimea ammunition depot deemed "sabotage” by Russia, force evacuation of residents

Russia on Tuesday blamed saboteurs for orchestrating a series of explosions at an ammunition depot in Russian-annexed Crimea.

The incident follows a series of explosions last week at a Russian-operated air base in Crimea which Ukrainian officials hinted were part of some kind of special operation but which Moscow said at the time was an accident.

Sergei Aksyonov, the top Russian official in Crimea, said more than 3,000 residents had been evacuated from a village near the ammo dump beyond a 5 km perimeter.

He said that two people had been injured in the ammo explosions and that there was disruption to railway traffic between the peninsula and the rest of southern Ukraine and Russia.

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