Social media video shows fires and columns of black smoke rising from a site near Belgorod in Russia not far from the Ukrainian border. Other video shows police in the area redirecting traffic away from the area and helicopters circling above the city.

The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyascheslav Gladkov, said on Telegram that a fire had broken out at a facility belonging to the Ministry of Defense.

“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,”

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