Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate: blasts in Dzhankoy herald ‘de-occupation’ of Crimea

Late Monday night, shots and explosions were heard in Dzhankoy, a town in northern Crimea. Judging by the videos posted on social media, Dzhankoy may have come under a suicide-drone attack. The town mayor, Igor Ivin, confirms this is what must have happened.

Sergey Aksenov, the Kremlin-backed governor of the annexed peninsula, reports that air defense systems have been triggered in the Dzhankoy area. His advisor Oleg Kryuchkov has posted photos of UAV remnants from the vicinity.

One person has been injured in the incident.

Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate has issued a statement on having destroyed several Kalibr cruise missiles as they were being transported by rail in Dzhankoy. The missiles were meant for deployment on the ships of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, explained the intelligence agency, adding that the blasts heard in Dzhankoy herald the “de-occupation of the Ukrainian peninsula.”