The fire at the PMM warehouse of the Russian fleet in occupied Sevastopol is a preparation for the active actions of the Ukrainian army, said the spokeswoman of the Southern Operational Command of Ukraine Nataliya Humenyuk, reports Ukrainian Pravda.
Humenyuk noted that undermining Russian logistics is one of the elements of preparation for active actions of the Armed Forces.
“This work is preparatory to the broad, large-scale offensive that everyone is waiting for,” noted Nataliya Humenyuk.
Mykhailo Razvozhaev, the governor of Sevastopol appointed by Moscow, said that drones were the cause of the fire at the fuel depot.
Experts inspected the place and “it turned out that only one drone can reach the fuel tank,” Mykhailo Razvozhaev reported in the Telegram messenger. Another drone was shot down and its wreckage was found on the shore near the terminal, he added.
A representative of Ukrainian military intelligence said on Saturday that more than 10 tankers with oil products with a capacity of about 40,000 tons, which were intended for the Russian Black Sea Fleet, were destroyed in an explosion on April 29 in the occupied port of Sevastopol by the Russians. , RBC Ukraine reported, Reuters reports.
Official Andriy Yusov, in his comments to RBC, did not hold Ukraine responsible for the blast, instead calling the blast “God’s punishment” for Russian attacks on Friday that killed at least 25 people.
Instead, Mykhailo Razvozhaev reported that the fire that broke out on Saturday morning at a fuel storage facility in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol affected four, not 10 tanks.
“The four fuel tanks that were hit have practically burned down,” he said.
The Ukrainian counteroffensive is on the way.
Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on Friday that Ukraine is finalizing preparations for a long-awaited counteroffensive against Russian forces and is mostly ready for it.
“As soon as there is the will of God, the weather and the command’s decision, we will do it,” Reznikov said at an online briefing.
He did not give a date when the counteroffensive would begin, but said that “at the global level, we are highly prepared.”
Kyiv hopes that the planned counteroffensive will change the dynamics of the war that has raged since Russia invaded Ukraine 14 months ago.
Russia holds Ukrainian territories in the east, south and southeast. The Ukrainian military said in its latest daily report on the war that the small town in the east of the country, Bakhmut, remains at the center of hostilities.
It will also be recalled that Ukraine still controls the key supply route in Bakhmut, the spokesman of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Serhii Cherevaty, said on Saturday, while the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, who was threatened, is withdrawing part of his troops. from the eastern city if Moscow does not send more ammunition, Reuters reports.
Also, in a nearly 90-minute video interview with Russian military blogger Semyon Pegov published on Saturday, Prigozhin threatened to withdraw troops from Bakhmut, saying he only had a few days’ worth of ammunition left.
“If the shortage of ammunition is not filled, then … most likely, we will have to withdraw part of the units,” Prigozhin said, referring to a letter sent to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Soyg, which specified the deadline. from April 28
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