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Kyiv (dpa-AFX) – After a series of heavy explosions in Russian military installations in Crimea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj called on Ukrainians in occupied territories to exercise caution. “Please do not go near the military facilities of the Russian army and all those places where they store ammunition and equipment, where they have their headquarters!” Zelenskyy said in his video address on Tuesday evening.
He addressed this appeal to “all our people in Crimea, in other regions of southern Ukraine, in the occupied territories of Donbass and in the Kharkiv region”. Zelenskyy did not claim the detonations as successful attacks on Ukraine. The triggers are “very different”, the Russians could also be to blame. Nevertheless, the following applies: “The fewer opportunities the occupiers have to do evil and kill Ukrainians, the sooner we can end this war by liberating our country.”
The queue at the bridge to mainland Russia proves “that the absolute majority of citizens of the terrorist state already understands or at least has the feeling that Crimea is not a place for them,” Zelensky said.
Videos on social networks show that many Russian vacationers have been leaving the peninsula for days and there are traffic jams in front of the Kerch bridge. The Russian state news agency Ria Novosti reported a record 38,300 vehicles on the bridge for Monday
– but in both directions. At the railway station of the Crimean capital
Many tourists tried to get a train ticket in Simferopol on Tuesday. Russia took Crimea from Ukraine in 2014./fko/DP/he