Huge fire at Russian oil depot near Ukraine border
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said that at 2 a.m. this morning (April 25) it received news of a large fire that broke out at an oil depot in the city of Bryansk, close to the Ukrainian border.
RT news agency quoted local residents as saying explosions and fires broke out in several districts of Bryansk. According to unconfirmed reports, the second source of fire came from the garrison area of the 120th military unit of the General Directorate of Missiles and Artillery of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Emergency services have begun evacuating residents from homes near the burning oil depot. Russia’s Emergencies Ministry confirmed the information about the fire, but Russian officials have not commented on the cause of the fire.
The distance from Bryansk to the border with Ukraine is 154km. The distance from Belgorod, where a Russian oil depot was attacked by Ukraine on April 1, to the border with Ukraine is 37km.
Hoai Linh
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