Moscow/Kiev (EFE)
The Dzhankoy authorities have today decreed a municipal state of emergency after the attack, which left at least one person injured.
The extraordinary measure was announced by the head of the Dzhankoi administration, Igor Ivin, in statements to the Krym-24 television channel.
“All the drones were shot down,” said the adviser to the Crimean Administration Headquarters Oleg Kriuchkov, quoted by the official TASS news agency.
Kriuchkov did not specify the number of devices that participated in the attack, but stressed that “they were targeting civilian facilities.”
“One of them was shot down over a Dzhankoy vocational school and fell between the classroom building and the hostel. The rest were shot down in residential neighborhoods, ”he said.
The Crimean adviser stressed that in each of the devices “there were explosives and shrapnel.”
“Railroads and infrastructure were not damaged. The trains run normally,” he added.
Ukraine does not acknowledge responsibility for the attack
The head of Crimea, Sergei Axiónov, told a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the republic that restoration work began in the city after the attack, explaining that agents of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and specialists from the Ministry of Defense work on the spot.
“All damaged facilities are under control. Working groups have been organized to assess the damage and pay legal compensation to the victims,” she said.
“If it was the participation of a drone or there were three, the specialists will establish it, we will keep them informed of the case,” he added.
In addition, the Russian Investigative Committee is investigating the use of unmanned vehicles in the attack, according to the Interfax agency.
Ukrainian military intelligence reported at the stroke of midnight that a “mysterious explosion” destroyed several Russian Kalibr cruise missiles being transported by rail in Dzhankoy.
Although Ukraine has not acknowledged responsibility for the attack, the statement from its military intelligence services stressed that after the explosion “the process of demilitarization of Russia continues and the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea is being prepared for liberation.”
The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, tweeted a message with a rocket last night.
Dzhankói of about 40,000 inhabitants is located in northern Crimea, about 100 miles from the territory of the Khershon region controlled by Ukrainian troops.
The attack on the Crimean city occurs while the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, is on an official visit to Russia to discuss with his Russian colleague, Vladimir Putin, among other issues, the situation of the conflict in Ukraine.
