{"id":1358712,"date":"2026-02-17T11:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/belbek-airfield-under-attack-a-series-of-powerful-explosions-thundered-in-sevastopol\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:34:56","slug":"belbek-airfield-under-attack-a-series-of-powerful-explosions-thundered-in-sevastopol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/belbek-airfield-under-attack-a-series-of-powerful-explosions-thundered-in-sevastopol\/","title":{"rendered":"Belbek airfield under attack: a series of powerful explosions thundered in Sevastopol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Since the evening of Monday, February 16, a series of powerful explosions have thundered in the temporarily occupied Crimea. The Belbek airfield in Sevastopol came under attack by drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Crimeanwind\/93928\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the Telegram channel &#8220;Crimean Wind&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;At 04:36, a powerful strike on the Belbek airfield and 4 subsequent dull explosions in a row, probably a detonation,&#8221; the post says.<\/p>\n<p> The explosions at the Belbek airfield continued until almost Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that in addition to Sevastopol, explosions were heard in Kerch, at the Kacha airfield, in the Dzhankoy district, Feodosia, Novofedorivka, and Simferopol.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on the night of Tuesday, February 17, drones attacked several regions of the Russian Federation. In particular, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drony-distalysia-kubani-ta-tatarstanu-spalakhnuv-ilskyy-npz\/\">powerful explosions thundered in the Krasnodar Territory.<\/a> As a result of the attack, a large-scale fire broke out at the Ilya oil refinery.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the evening of Monday, February 16, a series of powerful explosions have thundered in the temporarily occupied Crimea. The Belbek airfield in Sevastopol came under attack by drones. This was reported by the Telegram channel &#8220;Crimean Wind&#8221;. &#8220;At 04:36, a powerful strike on the Belbek airfield and 4 subsequent dull explosions in a row, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1246732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76874,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1358712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}