The fire broke out at an oil depot in Belgorod after shelling from Ukraine, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced this on Saturday in his Telegram channel.
“One of the shells hit an oil depot in the Belgorod region,” he wrote adding that there was no threat of the fire spreading further.
Gladkov also specified there were no victims.
Emergency services told TASS, one of the ten tanks with the remains of diesel fuel at the oil depot in the village of Razumnoye-71 is on fire.