A witness video documents the massive explosion the preceded a large fire that engulfed a Russian controlled oil storage facility in the Crimean peninsula's port city of Sevastopol. The blast was reportedly caused by a Ukrainian drone strike on April 29, 2023.

The strike effected as many as 10 storage tanks and as much as 40,000 gallons of oil. The Russians use the oil products to fuel the Black Sea Fleet.

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