Videos shared on social media by Ukrainian media and officials showed a large fire and plumes of smoke with the sound of explosions crackling. Ukraine didn’t claim responsibility for the blast in Crimea, which Russia’s military seized in 2014 . One senior Ukrainian official appeared to refer to it in a celebratory post on social media, using a Ukrainian word that mocks the Russian euphemism for explosions. A headquarters set up by police and the Russian Emergencies Ministry in a village near where the blasts took place. “I really like this cotton,” Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential administration, wrote on Telegram. The word for cotton in Russian is the same as the word Russian officials have used to describe explosions, meaning a pop or a clap. Last week, satellite images appeared to show a number of destroyed warplanes after explosions hit a Russian air base in Crimea, contradicting […]