Sappers of the International Mine Action Center of the Russian Armed Forces. Archival photoSIMFEROPOL, Aug 17 Sappers are working in the villages of the Dzhankoy district in the north of Crimea, which fell into the zone of detonation of ammunition in one of the military units, Nikolai Karpets, head of the administration of the Maisky rural settlement, told RIA Novosti. ammunition storage site with detonation — according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as a result of sabotage — occurred in a military unit near the village of Maiskoye in Crimea. The incident caused damage to a number of civilian facilities, including power lines, power plants, railways and residential buildings. About 3 thousand residents were evacuated from two nearby villages. A cordon was established — a five-kilometer zone, two people were injured. A criminal case has been initiated.
Explosions at the site of the detonation of ammunition in Crimea have practically ceased»While sappers are working on the spot. The streets are being cleaned up slowly. As soon as there is an act that the Ministry of Emergency Situations gives the go-ahead, we will start letting people in,» Karpets told the agency. At the same time, according to him, the population evacuated earlier began to gradually return to the neighboring village of Azovskoye, which also fell into the detonation zone of ammunition. Karpets noted.
