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More than 2,000 residents are being evacuated from four villages in Russian-occupied Crimea after a fire that triggered hours of explosions at a nearby ammunition depot.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Russian-installed officials also shut a stretch of the motorway that crosses the southern half of the peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They did not explain the cause of the fire at a military training ground near the city of Staryi Krim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But unconfirmed reports on social media spoke of three Ukrainian strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The overnight explosions coincided with a heavy Russian missile and drone attack that officials said was largely targeted at Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Critical infrastructure and military facilities were attacked by several waves of cruise missiles and Iranian-made drones launched from the Black Sea, Crimea and southern Russia, said Ukraine’s air force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although 37 Russian missiles and drones were shot down, a number did penetrate Ukrainian defences. Officials in Odesa said a number of people were wounded and several flats were damaged. A grain and fuel terminal at the port were hit along with two warehouses including one described as housing fireworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was the second night in a row that Odesa was targeted, in attacks linked to Russia’s withdrawal from an international deal enabling grain and fertiliser to be exported safely across the Black Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: More than 2,000 residents are being evacuated from four villages in Russian-occupied Crimea after a fire that triggered hours of explosions at a nearby ammunition depot. Russian-installed officials also shut a stretch of the motorway that crosses the southern half of the peninsula. They did not explain the cause of the fire at a military training ground near the city of Staryi Krim. But unconfirmed reports on social media spoke of three Ukrainian strikes. The overnight explosions coincided with a heavy Russian missile and drone attack that officials said was largely targeted at Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33428,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33426\/revisions\/33428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}