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KYIV — Moscow sabotages Ukraine blamed on Tuesday for new explosions at military bases in Russia-annexed Crimea, a key supply line for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The blast engulfed an ammunition depot at a military base in northern Crimea, disrupted trains and killed 2,000 people from a nearby village, according to Russian officials and news reports. evacuated. agency.
Smoke was then seen rising at Russia's No. 2 military base in central Crimea, while an explosion hit another site in the west last week, according to Russia's Kommersant newspaper.
Whether Ukraine now has the ability to strike deeper into Russian territory or pro-Kyiv A new dynamic to the six-month war if the group is successful in a guerrilla-style attack.
Russia has used the Crimean Peninsula, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014, to arm its forces fighting elsewhere in Ukraine.
Crimea is the base of Russia's Black Sea Fleet and a popular summer resort.
Tuesday's explosion also set fire to a substation, according to Russian state television footage. Seven trains were delayed and rail traffic was interrupted on some lines in northern Crimea, according to Russia's RIA news agency.
"CREATING CHAOS"
Ukraine has neither officially confirmed nor denied responsibility for the explosion in Crimea, but its officials said until last week they were safe under Moscow's control. It openly welcomes the incident in the territory that was thought to be the attack range.
Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Mikhail Podlyak and Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak took to social media to praise the "demilitarization". This is a decidedly mocking reference to the language Russia uses to justify aggression.
"The exact style 'demilitarization' operation of the Ukrainian army will continue until the complete non-occupation of Ukrainian territory," Yermak wrote on Telegram.
Podlyak later told the British Guardian newspaper that Ukraine's strategy was to destroy Russian "logistics, supply lines, ammunition depots and other objects of military infrastructure." It is creating chaos within their own power.
"The Russian Defense Ministry predicts that there will be more incidents of this kind in the next few months," said Podoljak. told the Guardian.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the explosion at the ammunition depot was "the result of sabotage."
With the war raging since 24 February, shelling near Europe's largest Zaporizhia nuclear reactor complex in the Russian-occupied territory of southeastern Ukraine has also recently attracted attention.
A Russian-based official said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had shelled the city of Enerkhodar, where the power plant is located, according to Interfax news agency. They accused Ukraine of trying to provoke Russia into attacking again.
Later on Tuesday, 20 Russian rockets and 10 artillery shells hit the city of Nikopol, on the banks of the Dnipro River across from the Ukrainian government-controlled Enerkhodar, Ukrainian regional governor Valentin said.・Reznichenko wrote on his Telegram.
Four people were injured, he said.
Reuters was unable to immediately verify either side's accounts.
Both sides have accused each other of increasing risks to the Zaporizhia factory, which Russia seized in March, even though Ukrainian engineers continue to operate.
Technicians work under the watch of heavily armed Russian forces and face great pressure, but stay safe from a Chernobyl-style disaster, he said. one of him said. We rarely get a glimpse of the uneasy working conditions there.
"It's very painful to have to go to the plant and meet these people and be there. It's mentally and emotionally taxing," he said, fearing Russian retaliation. said on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, his FSB Security Service in Russia repeatedly blew up transmission towers at a nuclear power plant in the Kursk region, about 90 km north of the Ukrainian border, accusing Ukraine of sabotaging the plant's operations. accused the "saboteurs" of
Reuters was unable to corroborate this report. Ukraine's Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ukraine conflict has forced millions to flee, claimed thousands of lives and deepened geopolitical rifts between Moscow and the West. I was.
Moscow has called the invasion a "special military operation" to demilitarize its neighbors and protect Russian-speaking communities. Ukraine, which was part of the Russian-ruled Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991, accuses Moscow of waging an imperial-style war of conquest.
Grain Export Growth
115} In the biggest attack on a European nation since 1945, a UN-brokered deal to resume Ukrainian grain exports progressed further after the Russian blockade. Kyiv's Black Sea was exacerbating a global food crisis.After the port blockade was lifted, the Brave Commander carried the first cargo of food aid from Ukraine to Africa since the Russian invasion.
Ukraine said she could export 3 million tonnes of grain from its ports in September and eventually 4 million tonnes a month, government officials said. said.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Odessa, Ukraine's main Black Sea port, during his trip to Ukraine on Friday, during which he met with President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. We are going to have a meeting. A UN spokesman said of the grain deal.
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