Flames and a column of smoke visible from miles away. A large explosion hit the Belbek airbase near Sevastopol in Crimea today. The governor of the region, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that the plane veered off the runway during landing. The ammunition load on board caught fire while the pilot managed to eject and escape the plane. The fire was quickly extinguished and no damage was sustained to the base, he noted.
The moment of the explosion of a Russian fighter in Crimea continued
“The plane left the runway, there was a partial explosion of ammunition. The pilot managed to evacuate. The fire was extinguished, the airport was not damaged,” says Gauleiter Razvozhaev. pic.twitter.com/6RIpNhrxL2– Gianluca (@Gianl1974) October 1, 2022
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. In August, some explosions occurred at Russia’s Saky military base in Crimea, and Ukraine later realized it had hit the base with an airstrike. Also for today’s episode, some voices do not believe the official Russian version and see the hand of Kiev in the incident, which had a wide echo on social media, with the images of people on the beach in front of the column of smoke.
