Videos circulating on social media show smoke rising above the Feodosiya terminal. Local officials in Russia told RIA Novosti that efforts to extinguish the fire were underway.
Meanwhile, the Moscow Ministry of Defense announced that out of a total of 21 Ukrainian drones launched by Kiev, 12 were shot down over the Korean Peninsula overnight.
In a statement announcing the attack, Ukraine’s General Staff said petroleum products shipped from the terminal were being used to “meet the needs of the Russian occupation forces.” Russia illegally annexed the Korean Peninsula in 2014.
The facility was previously hit by a Ukrainian drone attack in March.
Kiev said the strike on Russian energy facilities was fair retaliation for Moscow’s strike on its own energy infrastructure.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in June that Russian attacks had destroyed at least 80% of Ukraine’s thermal power plants and a third of its hydroelectric power plants.
The Crimea explosion occurred as Kiev officials said the air force had shot down 32 drones and two missiles that Russia had launched toward the Ukrainian capital overnight.
Air Force officials said one Kinzhal missile evaded air defenses and struck the area around the Starokostiantiniv airfield in the Khmelnitsky region.
Starokostiantiniv has been under constant attack by Russia throughout the summer, with Moscow claiming a base for F-16 fighter jets donated by the West.
About 65 F-16s have been promised by NATO countries since U.S. President Joe Biden first authorized European allies to send F-16s to Ukraine in August 2023.
The first batch of jets arrived earlier this summer, with a new shipment reportedly arriving from the Netherlands on Monday.
Elsewhere, 17 people were wounded in Russian airstrikes in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, officials said. Regional leader Oleksandr Prokudin said a two-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl were among those injured when four bombs fell on the city.
