A Ukrainian drone attack in Dzhankoy, northern Crimea, hit an ammunition depot on Monday morning, with Russian air defense forces intercepting 11 drones over the area, Serhiy Aksyonov, the Russian-appointed governor of the peninsula illegally annexed by Ukraine in 2014, said, according to Reuters and AFP, according to Agerpres.

As a result of the attack, according to him, a residential building was also damaged.

“Eleven enemy drones were shot down by air defense forces and neutralized over Crimea,” Serhii Aksyonov reported in Telegram, adding that an “ammunition warehouse” was hit in the Dzhankoy district, and a residential building was damaged by rocket fragments.

It is currently unknown whether the warehouse was hit by the drone directly or as a result of shrapnel falling from the intercepted drone.

“A decision was made to evacuate the population within a radius of 5 kilometers” from the site of the incident, the pro-Russian official added, noting that “according to preliminary data” there were no victims.

Ukrainian attacks, for which Kiev rarely takes responsibility, have increased in recent weeks on the Moscow-controlled peninsula amid a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the east and south.

Russian authorities in Crimea on Saturday accused Ukraine of a drone attack on another ammunition depot, causing it to detonate and forcing local authorities to evacuate the area and suspend rail service.

On the night of July 16-17, an attack attributed by Russia to Ukraine damaged the bridge over the Kerch Strait, the only infrastructure connecting Crimea with Russia and which was already affected by a spectacular attack by Kyiv forces in October 2022, AFP reminds.