The highway connecting the Crimean bridge to Sevastopol closed due to a fire

The Tavrida Highway linking the Crimean port city of Kerch in the Sea of Azov with Sevastopol on the peninsula's Black Sea coast has been closed due to a fire in Kirovsky District, Russian authorities said. tax agency

A Russian ammunition depot would have been hit, according to other sources it would instead be a landfill.

The authorities are organizing the evacuation of about 2,000 people and in the meantime an operational headquarters has been set up to deal with the emergency. An alternative route for car traffic has also been identified.

During the night, all the drones launched by the Russian army were shot down, Ukrainian forces said.

(Unioneonline/ss)