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Russia-Ukraine updates: Blasts heard in Crimea's Sevastopol, Kerch

Explosions have been heard at an airbase near Sevastopol, and near the eastern Crimean city of Kerch. An ammunition depot across the border in Russia was earlier reported to have caught fire. Follow DW for the latest.

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Ukraine says the road-rail bridge across the Kerch Strait from Crimea to Russia is a legitimate target

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At least four explosions were heard near a major Russian military air base in the annexed Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea on Thursday, local sources said.

The sources said the blasts were near the Belbek base, north of Sevastopol. However, a pro-Moscow official said no damage had been done.

The internationally non-recognized governor of Sevastopol said according to preliminary information, Russian anti-aircraft forces had downed a Ukrainian drone. He said no one was hurt and that there was no damage.

Explosions were also reported around the Ukrainian city of Kerch, on the eastern edge of the Crimean Peninsula.

Kerch is the gateway to a bridge — built in 2018 — that links Crimea with Russia. Ukraine has said the bridge is a legitimate target in its bid to force the Russian occupiers out of their lands.

Crimea was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, and is an important supply route for Moscow's war in Ukraine.

Earlier this week, Russia took the unusual step of admitting that saboteurs were responsible for orchestrating a series of explosions at an ammunition depot in Crimea on Tuesday. Last week, blasts ripped through a Crimean air base, which Moscow at the time said was caused by an accident.

Here's a roundup of some of the other key developments in Ukraine on August 18.

Dawn shelling on city of Kharkiv

The governor of the Kharkiv Oblast, Oleh Synehubov, reported renewed dawn shelling of the city of Kharkiv on Thursday morning.

"At the moment, there are 18 wounded, among them two children; one person died," Synehubov wrote on the Telegram social media network.

Kharkiv came under Russian fire on Wednesday, too, with six people killed and 16 wounded in that attack according to the Ukrainian Emergencies Service.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Wednesday's attack "a devious and cynical strike on civilians with no justification."

Kharkiv, with a population of about 1.4 million according to UN figures from 2017, is situated close to the Russian border and has been contested for most of the war. It was also hit by artillery fire on Tuesday night.

Finnish Defense Ministry suspects Russian jets violated airspace

Finland on Thursday said it suspected two Russian fighter jets had violated its airspace.

The Finnish Defense Ministry said the Russian MiG-31 fighter jets, which were headed west, were in the airspace on Thursday morning near the southern coastal city of Porvoo.

Defense communications chief Kristian Vakkuri told the news agency Reuters that the aircraft were in Finnish airspace for two minutes.

"The depth of the suspected violation into Finnish airspace was one kilometer," he said.

Moscow's Defense Ministry on Thursday was cited by the Russian news agency Interfax as saying it had relocated three MiG-31E warplanes equipped with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles to its Kaliningrad region.

Ukraine, Turkey, UN to hold talks in Lviv

Zelenskyy will meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan later on Thursday in the western city of Lviv, far from the front lines.

UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said that among other issues, Guterres would discuss "his overall efforts to do what he can to essentially lower the temperature as much as possible with the various authorities."

Turkey, which helped broker an agreement clearing the way for Ukraine to export grain via the Black Sea, said the talks would also explore political solutions to the conflict.

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Russia accuses Ukrainian forces of planning 'provocation'

Meanwhile, Russia's Defense Ministry said, without providing evidence, that Ukraine was planning a "provocation" at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to coincide with the UN visit. Shellfire has been reported at the Russian-controlled site repeatedly of late, with Ukraine and Russia blaming each other. Ukraine said on Wednesday that it would start nuclear disaster drills near the site.

Ukrainian presidential spokesman Oleksiy Arestovych said in a video message that the visit came amid "strategic deadlock" in the almost 6-month-old conflict.

"Russian forces have achieved only minimal advances, and in some cases we have advanced, since last month," Arestovych said.

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ここ数日の注目は，クリミア半島の情勢に移っているようです。それにしても，本来は，ロシア・プーチンの武力による侵略行為は絶対に許されるものではありません。当該地区のロシア系住民が圧政に苦しんでいるとするならば，あくまでその地域での正当な住民投票によってその帰属等について決められるべきでしょう。仮に，結果としてロシア帰属を望むことが大勢であるならば，独立かロシア併合もあるのでしょうが，ウクライナとして継続する意見が多いのであれば現状維持か、一部，改善項目等を加味して行く行政等が求められるのでしょう。何れにしても武力による変更はあり得ません。プーチンは戦争犯罪を行なっています。大犯罪人です。極刑に相当します。

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