Posted on 04/29/2023 12:01:59 PM PDT by dennisw
Four oil tanks hit by Ukrainian 'drone strike' at naval port in annexed Crimea Video shows huge fireball raging and Russia says fire will not be out until tonight
A huge ball of fire is raging in Crimea after a suspected Ukrainian aerial drone strike hit a major fuel depot in the heart of an annexed naval port Sevastopol today.
Footage showed a fireball with huge flames and a mushroom-like black cloud from a major fire triggered by two explosions in Cossack Bay, in the Crimean Peninsula.
The blasts came at 4:20am and 4:21am local time (2.20am and 2.21am UK time), and appear to be the latest attempt by Ukraine to strike at Russia's naval firepower base in the annexed peninsula.
Four giant storage tanks erupted at the Sevastopol oil depot hit by a Ukrainian strike.
The Russian-appointed Sevastopol authorities rushed 18 firefighting teams to the inferno.
The flames shot into the sky and an area of almost 11,000 square feet was ablaze, according to the occupying officials.
Russian officials have admitted the fire would not be be extinguished until tonight.
'There were two explosions,' a resident told Russian news website Readovka.
'One muffled somewhere far away and the second directly from Cossack Bay.
'Of course, after that the fire started immediately.
'Everyone was asleep but the explosions woke them up.
'The fire brigade arrived after about 15 minutes.'
Vladimir Putin was informed about the strike which represents a failure of his air defences.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Video and pictures show huge a huge blaze burning at the oil depot, and firefighters attempting to put down the flames.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Careless smoking, no doubt.
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Hah, that fire was put out fast. OMG, it was sssoooooooo massive.
Up in smoke.
Many Larger More dramatic photos at source
What is burning is bunker grade fuel oil for Russian navy and lubricants for the same.
They obviously need to be fined for excessive pollution contributing to global warming
This video provides a brief Front Line Update of areas like Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Zaporizhzhia, Maryinka, Kherson, etc.. We discuss changes made to the front line and analyse the current situation with a neutral approach.
That fire was impossible to put out. It burned out. It burned everything it could burn. The firetrucks could hose down the twisted steel debris.
Some storage tanks might not have burned. But due to the interlocking pipe network, what is in them cannot be piped out to use, for the time being.
A PRESENT for Greta........
“almost 11,000 square feet was ablaze” LOL Those are rookie numbers!
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The Russian news video shows more like 11,000 square meters on fire.
I thought you were an expert when it comes to 💨 wind, not 🔥 fire.
VIDEO: Ukrainian drone attack has left an oil tank farm burning in the Russian-held port of Sevastopol
https://rumble.com/v2l1sqa-ukrainian-drone-attack-has-left-an-oil-tank-farm-burning-in-the-russian-hel.html
Pathetic response. Nice try.
Bakhmut/Aryomovsk is to 90% under Russian control and the rest will be captured during the next few days. Ukrainian losses in the city must have been huge. The Ukrainian troops who try to escape from the city immediately come under artillery fire. The latest daily Russian clobber report counts 575 'enemy losses' in Bakhmut over the last 24 hours for a total of 815 along the whole frontline. This is the largest number reported over the last two months.
They obviously need to be fined for excessive pollution contributing to global warming
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How many cow farts would be needed to equal 5 minutes of this explosion?
Right, and how many of these explosions would be needed to equal one Mount Saint Helen level volcano?
The numerator in the cow fart to volcano ratio must have a heck of a lot of zeros after the decimal.
I was a lad in Signal Hill, Cal when the Hancock Oil Refinery caught on fire. At night you could see when an oil tank went up because there’d be a brief pillar of fire lighting up the sky. Took two days to get put out.
Nothing like the Russian losses in their pointless effort to capture what is now a pile of smoking rubble.
But thank your pals in Russia, their focus on Bakhmut has degraded most of their best fighting groups.
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