Fires and columns of black smoke can be seen rising from a site near Belgorod, Russia.

A place near the Ukrainian border, has been set on fire.

Footage shows cops directing traffic away from the scene and helicopters circling above the city.

Vyascheslav Gladkov, the governor of the Belgorod area, reported on that a fire had broken out at a Ministry of Defense site.

He wrote, “On the border of three municipalities; Borisov and Belgorod districts and Yakovlevsky urban district – a fire occurred on the territory of one of the facilities of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.”