Russians flee Crimea. Traffic jams on the Kerch Bridge

A multi-kilometre traffic jam has formed at the Kerch Bridge on the way out of Crimea, with drivers estimating that they will have to stand in it for about a day. Video of the traffic jam has appeared online.

In addition, Flightradar reported that a Russian government-operated Tu-204-300 aircraft left the temporarily occupied peninsula, but it is not known who was on the plane. It is noted that it made its first stop in Sochi.

It is known that the plane belongs to a special flight unit "Rossiya", which provides air transportation of Russian officials, heads of Russian security services or the armed forces. The unit is subordinated to the Russian presidential administration.

As journalist Andrei Tsaplienko points out, the mood among those fleeing Ukrainian Crimea is "not at its best".

Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated: everyone on the peninsula is worried.

As a result of yesterday's large-scale fire that broke out at an oil depot near Cossack Bay, 10 tanks with oil products, with a total capacity of about 40,000 tonnes, were destroyed by fire. As a result, panicked rumours spread through the city that the air defence was incapable of securing its own strategic facilities. For their part, sensing the beginning of the so-called 'hot holiday season' in temporarily occupied Crimea, Russian servicemen started to write holiday reports indicating their locations in continental Russia," the General Staff said.

The General Staff stressed that the oil depot, which had burned down the day before, was providing fuel to the ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet which were carrying out missile strikes on peaceful Ukrainian cities.

Russian terrorists were targeting civilians and civilian objects. At the same time, according to the available information, there were no casualties as a result of the fire at the oil depot," the Ukrainian General Staff added.

Nataliya Humenyuk, spokeswoman for the Defence Forces in southern Ukraine, stressed in a TV marathon that disrupting the enemy's logistics was one element of the Defence Forces' preparation for active operations.

She said that the destruction of a major oil depot in Sevastopol would force the occupiers to reorient and disperse.