Within the village of Novofedorovka within the Saksky district of Crimea, explosions have been heard, Baza studies, referring to studies from native residents.
Reuters studies that, in keeping with three native residents, they heard a number of loud explosions within the village and noticed black smoke rising from the Russian army air base. Venture “Warning, information” reported that smoke was seen on the seashore in Evpatoria, situated 30 kilometers from Novofedorovka.
Mash wrote that the explosions occurred within the space of the airfield of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (the Saki army airfield is situated within the village). Baza studies about six or seven explosions. Eyewitnesses say that they hear “one thing just like the detonation of shells” each minute.
In accordance with unconfirmed data from Mash, two folks have been injured. The Associations of Tour Operators of Russia reported that, in keeping with preliminary data, nobody was injured among the many vacationers.
The adviser to the pinnacle of Crimea, Oleg Kryuchkov, confirmed {that a} sequence of explosions passed off within the Novofedorovka space. Victoria Kazmirova, head of administration of the Saksky area, mentioned that the explosions occurred on the airfield. «Our airfield explodes. Airfield explosions. Right here, all the pieces was damaged,” she informed TASS. The top of the Crimea, Sergey Aksenov, mentioned that he “went to the scene of the incident”. The Ministry of Emergency Conditions is on website.
The editor-in-chief of the RT channel, Margarita Simonyan, irrespective of sources, reported that «on the spot they consider that [это] not arrivals, however sabotage, and even basic headhunting».
Native residents report that many ambulances are driving in the direction of Novofedorovka from Evpatoria. In the other way, locals and vacationers journey en masse. There have been visitors jams on the roads.
Since 2014, the forty third fighter aviation regiment of the Russian Air Power has been based mostly on the Saki airfield in Novofedorovka, armed with Su-24 bombers and Su-30 fighters.
