Ukraine: Operations in Crimea to continue until complete de-occupation

Head of Ukraine’s President’s Office Andriy Yermak has hinted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were behind explosions in Crimea.

The destruction of Russian arms depots would continue until the complete de-occupation of Ukrainian territories, Ukrayinska Pravda quotes Yermak’s Telegram channel as saying on August 16.

“Operation ‘demilitarization’ in the jewellery style of Ukraine’s Armed Forces would continue until the complete de-occupation of Ukrainian territories. Our warriors are the best sponsors of good mood. Crimea is Ukraine,” wrote the head of Zelenskyy’s Office.

On the morning of August 16, explosions were heard in Dzhankoi District of the occupied Crimea City and fire was visible. A detonation was reported at an ammunition depot in the village of Maiske.

In Crimea, people began to be evacuated after explosions at an ammunition depot near Dzhankoi, as of 10:00 am on August 16, about 2,000 people had already left.

Later it became known that the railway in the north of the occupied Crimea was damaged due to an explosion at a Russian ammunition depot in the village of Maiske, and trains from Russia would not go further than Vladyslavivka in the east of the peninsula.