Crimea Air Base on Fire After Second Night of Ukraine Strikes [Video]

A Russian military airfield in Crimea has caught fire for a second night in a row, according to new reports, after Moscow said Ukraine had launched consecutive long-range strikes on the Russian-controlled peninsula.

The Belbek airfield, close to the port city of Sevastopol on Crimea’s western edge where Russia bases its Black Sea naval fleet, is “on fire again,” Russian independent news outlet Astra reported on Thursday.

Grainy footage shared by the outlet appears to show a fire, but it is not possible to verify the details of the clip. Data published by NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), which detects fires across the globe, shows a number of blazes in the area of the Belbek airfield in the past 24 hours.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that Ukrainian forces used U.S.-provided Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) long-range missiles against unspecified facilities at around 11 p.m. Moscow time on Wednesday night. Five missiles were “destroyed” by …