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Images shot on a phone show fire and smoke billowing from a munitions depot in Crimea, after Russia says a fire set off explosions. The Russian defence ministry said in a statement that a fire erupted around 6:15 am local time (0315 GMT) at a temporary military storage site near the village of Mayskoye in the Dzhankoi district, causing ammunition to detonate. IMAGES
In images released by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, firefighters are seen putting out a fire at a fuel storage facility in the southern city of Belgorod, after "an air strike carried out by two Ukrainian army helicopters", according to the local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. Belgorod lies some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Russia's border with Ukraine and some 80 kilometres from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has been pummelled by Russian forces since Moscow launched its war on February 24. IMAGES
Images releasd by Russia's emergencies ministry show wildfires sparked by explosions at a munitions depot in the Ryazan region southeast of Moscow. More than 1,000 people from nearby villages have been evacuated. IMAGES
Ukranian authorities evacuated more than 30,000 people from the central Vinnytsya region after a huge munitions depot caught fire and set off artillery shells and blasts. 1ST IMAGES.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hails the United States' decision to allow Kyiv to use American-supplied weapons to strike in Russia, with some restrictions. The move is "some step forward" toward the defence of people in border villages, Zelensky tells reporters at a Ukrainian-Northern Europe security summit in Stockholm. SOUNDBITE
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