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The embarrassment of Moscow after a series of “sabotages” in Crimea attributed to kyiv

2022-08-17T17:23:30.246Z


STORY - Several attacks against military sites on the annexed peninsula in 2014, claimed half-heartedly by the Ukrainians, make the Russian authorities fear the multiplication of clandestine actions behind their positions.


Correspondent in Moscow

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The photo will no doubt appear in the album of iconic images of the year 2022: Russian tourists basking on the beaches of Crimea while towering columns of smoke rise in the distance, in the cloudless sky .

Several explosions had just destroyed ammunition intended for military aviation, on August 9, on the Saki base, in the west of the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. Result: one dead and at least seven injured.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, no impact of gunfire or bombs was found on the spot, the explosions being officially due to a

"violation of instructions"

fire.

A smoker in the wrong place, Kommersant

newspaper told

sources within the local authorities… In kyiv, the Ukrainian president's entourage and sources at the Ministry of Defense initially denied any involvement.

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Source: lefigaro

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