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Multiple explosions have rocked Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Russia.
The Russian news agency RIA reports a fire in a substation near the village of Dzhankoy.
There are also said to have been detonations in an ammunition depot.
Sergei Aksyonov, Governor of Crimea
“The current state of affairs, as per the official Department of Defense report, is that the cause of today's incident was sabotage. We already understand what happened. We evacuated more than 3,000 people from Mayskoye and Azovskoye settlements in Jankoy district. «
According to Russian sources, two people were injured.
The blasts also damaged a railway line, train services to and from Moscow were restricted and a five-kilometer zone around the warehouse where the blast took place was cordoned off.
Tamara Modovskaya, resident of Mayskoye, Crimea
'We just want to get home as soon as possible. We want to know: how is it at home? What happened there? We don't know anything. They said my neighbor's house was damaged. But we don't know for sure."
It is the third military incident in Crimea in just a few weeks.
Only on Tuesday a week ago there had been heavy explosions at a Russian military base.
Ten Russian aircraft and large amounts of ammunition were destroyed.
Ukraine has so far not accepted responsibility for the incidents.
However, the head of the Ukrainian presidential office spoke of an "operation demilitarization."
