Putin says Russia is ``ready to provide'' allies with ``state-of-the-art weapons''
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According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, several explosions were seen at a temporary ammunition storage facility in the Dzhankoy region of northern Russia. After that, a fire broke out. Crimea around 4:15am BST (6:15am local time). The latest images of the incident suggest fire and smoke were fired early Tuesday into the air above an arms store near the village of Maiske.
A video posted on social media showed smoke rising above the raging flames in Maiskoye.
A series of explosions were also heard.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the fire damaged power plants, power lines, railroad tracks and apartment buildings.
A Sky News report suggested the attack was carried out by Ukrainian special forces operating in territory annexed by Russia in 2014.
That was after Russia accused Ukrainian "saboteurs" of carrying out the attack. That's it.
His Sky News correspondent in Odessa, Alistair Bunkall, said:
Russian state media reported that an explosion in the northern peninsula injured two people and disrupted a train.
Russia blamed the explosion in Maiskoye village on "sabotage" without naming the perpetrators.
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The Russian business newspaper Kommersant reported that residents said black smoke was also rising over an air force base in Gvardeiskoye, Crimea.
About 3,000 people living nearby have been evacuated from their homes, added Russian Crimean official Sergei Aksyonov.
Ukraine has fallen short of publicly claiming responsibility for any of the explosions, including one that shot down nine of her Russian planes at another Crimean air base last week.
Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in her 2014 and launched an offensive against Crimea in a war that began about six months ago.
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In another reported sabotage, Russian TASS reported that Ukrainian operatives were near Ukraine earlier this month. It cited the FSB's security agency as saying it had blown up six high-voltage transmission towers in the Kursk region of Russia.
The Kremlin demanded that Kiev recognize Crimea as part of Russia as a condition to end the fighting, and Ukraine vowed to expel Moscow's forces from the Black Sea peninsula.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on international leaders to kick Russian forces out of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, saying the Kremlin is involved in nuclear terrorism. .
