![]() ![]() According to reports, 25 people were injured and 13 were brought to the hospital. A fire broke out on the second floor of the Central Research Institute of the Aerospace Defense Forces in Tver in the late hours of the morning, and then spread to engulf a total area of about 2,700 square feet.Īt least six people were killed in the fire, although some reports put the number of victims at seven. Two fires were reported on Thursday April 21 in Tver, a city northwest of Moscow and only 110 miles from the capital. Newsweek has contacted Ukraine’s defense ministry for comment, but Kyiv hasn’t yet responded to the claims made by Belgorod local authorities. The cause of the fire wasn’t reported, but Belgorod’s regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, blamed the blaze on Ukrainian helicopters. “The fire at the oil depot occurred as a result of an air strike from two helicopters of the armed forces of Ukraine, which entered the territory of Russia at a low altitude,” Belgorod wrote on Telegram. Local authorities confirmed that two depot workers had been injured and that the residents of three streets near the facility had to be relocated. ![]() On April 1, a large fire was reported to have broken out at an oil depot in the Russian city of Belgorod. ![]() Newsweek has listed all of the mysterious fires reported in Russia in recent weeks, and tried to look at what links them together. Ukrainian authorities have not officially claimed responsibility for them, although Western officials – like British armed forces minister James Heappey – have said that it would be “completely legitimate” for Ukraine to hit targets on Russian soil. The causes of the fires remain under investigation by Russian authorities, and the blazes remain unexplained. N ewsweek has been reporting for weeks on a series of mysterious fires that have broken out across Russia in buildings, oil and ammunition depots, warehouses and other places. A still image from footage broadcast by the Russian Emergencies Ministry shows the purported aftermath of an April 1 airstrike against a fuel depot in the city of Belgorod, about 18 miles from the border with Ukraine.RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS ![]()
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