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Aug 9 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🇷🇺Explosions have been heard at a Russian military airfield in Crimea.

Footage from the scene showed plumes of smoke towering over a beach and a local park

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Oleg Kryuchkov, an adviser to Moscow-appointed head of Crimea, on Tuesday confirmed the explosions but stopped short of giving any details
Ukrainian media said the Russian military airfield in Nefedorovka on Crimea’s western coast came under attack
Viktoria Kazmirova, head of the Saki district in Crimea, confirmed on Tuesday that the airfield was targeted.

🗣️“Our airport is on fire. All the windows have been shattered”
🔴The explosions would mark a rare Ukrainian attack about 200 kilometres from the frontline
Margarita Simonyan, the influential editor-in-chief of the RT news channel, tweeted on Tuesday that the explosions were not caused by a Ukrainian airstrike but by sabotage
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🇺🇸Donald Trump has suggested FBI agents might have planted evidence at his Mar a Lago home.

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🔴Ukraine will not stop fighting until it has "liberated" Crimea, president Volodymyr Zelensky has said

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🗣"This Russian war against Ukraine and against all of free Europe began with Crimea and must end with Crimea – its liberation.

"We will never give it up ... the Black Sea region cannot be safe while Crimea is occupied," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address
🔴His statement comes after one person was killed on Tuesday when a Russian air base near seaside resorts in the annexed peninsula was rocked by blasts that Moscow said were detonations of stored ammunition, not the result of any attack
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British technology found in Russian weapons used in Ukraine

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