'Emergency services are on the scene and the cause of the fire is under investigation,' Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
A Russian ammunition depot located about nine miles from the Ukrainian border caught fire Thursday, forcing residents of two nearby settlements to evacuate, according to local authorities.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Belgorod region, confirmed the fire in a Telegram post, saying that the latest reports indicated there were no casualties. Gladkov wrote in the post that residents of the villages of Timonovo and Soloti, which Reuters reported are located about nine miles from Ukraine, were evacuated to a"safe distance."More details on the severity of the blaze and what equipment was stored inside the depot that went up in flames were not immediately available.
Belgorod is a region in western Russia whose administrative center is a city with the same name. In early July, when a string of blasts hit dozens of residential buildings in the city of Belgorod, the Kremlin alleged that they were part of a deliberate attempt from Ukraine to target Russian civilians, thereported. Ukraine denied the accusation and said that Russia had lied in the past about such incidents.
A Russian ammunition depot located about nine miles from the Ukrainian border caught fire Thursday, forcing residents of two nearby settlements to evacuate, according to local authorities. Above, a general view shows the Russian city of Belgorod on April 11, 2019.Still, this was of several instances in which mysterious explosions and fires have been reported in the Russian region since the start of the Russia-Ukraine War in late February.
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