(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 03 - The fire at the Russian oil depot of Temryuk, near the Crimean bridge on the Kerch Strait, was caused by a drone, a source of the forces of the Krasnodar region told Ria Novosti .
“One drone was shot down, another hit its target,” the source said.
In October, a truck bomb exploded on the bridge connecting Russian territory to the Crimea peninsula, causing the collapse of one of the spans.
The fire that broke out in the early hours of the morning in an oil products depot in the Russian district of Temryuk, near the Crimean bridge over the Kerch Strait, which connects mainland Russia with the unilaterally annexed peninsula, has spread over an area of 1,200 square meters Moscowin 2014. This is reported by Ria Novosti quoting the head of the district Fedor Babenkov.
Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said that "the fire has been classified at the highest degree of difficulty. Every effort has been made to prevent the fire from spreading further."
According to the Russian special services (FSB), a series of terrorist attacks in Crimea, planned by the Ukrainian military intelligence directorate, has been thwarted: "The objectives included the assassinations of some leadership leaders of the peninsula, unilaterally annexed by Moscow in 2014, and infrastructure".
The Russian state news agencies reported it, announcing that seven Ukrainian special agents were arrested.
The FSB said the attacks were planned against Crimean political leader Sergey Aksyonov, Prime Minister Vladimir Konstantinov and Yalta Mayor Yanina Pavlenko.
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