Despite the explosions that have awakened the city bank of the city around 5 am, the activity in the streets remains almost usual.
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The anti-aircraft defenses located near Maroupol Airport, the large port city of the Donetsk Oblast, were targeted, Thursday, February 24, according to all likelihood, by at least two tactical missiles. On site, Le Monde found a reversed radar, military equipment, buildings and damaged cars. But no human presence. A little further, in another part of the military base, a series of explosions sounded while a fire was raging. No doubt an ammunition deposit affected by a missile. Access is impossible. A soldier pulls in the air.
Then suddenly, powerful explosions resound around Maroupol, caused by ammunition of very large caliber. Military bases around the city, too, have to undergo strikes, according to a source related to the “Territorial Defense”, a section of the army consisting of professional military and voluntary reservists. Ambulances and police cars crisscross the streets of the city of more than 450,000 inhabitants, all screaming sirens. Tanks transported on semi-trailers are seen circulating on the periphery.