Social media reports explosions near FSB building in occupied Crimea
Photo: online reports claim strike on FSB building in Armyansk (Getty Images)
Reports on social media claim that an explosion occurred near an FSB building in occupied Crimea, according to Crimean Wind.
What is known so far?
The exact time and circumstances of the incident have not yet been established. The information has not been officially confirmed.
According to open-source reports, the incident may have taken place in the city of Armyansk in northern occupied Crimea. However, no further details about the events are available so far.
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Activity on the peninsula
At the same time, subscribers of the Crimean Wind channel reported other unusual activity across the peninsula.
At 1:55 p.m., a Be-12 amphibious aircraft reportedly took off from the Kacha airfield, flew over the sea, and headed toward Sevastopol. In the area near the village of Andriivka outside Sevastopol, residents also reported hearing short bursts of gunfire, allegedly from a machine gun.
Earlier, Ukrainian drones struck Russian Su-57 and Su-34 fighter jets at the Shagol airbase in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, about 1,700 kilometers from the border.
Follow-up reconnaissance reportedly confirmed the destruction of at least four aircraft.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out a series of strikes on Russian military targets in temporarily occupied territories during May 3 and overnight into May 4.
Among the reported targets were drone storage facilities in Donetsk and Kamianka in the Zaporizhzhia region, as well as a field artillery ammunition depot in the Luhansk region.
