Eight fuel tanks are on fire at an oil storage facility in Belgorod, Russia, and there is a danger that the fire will spread to eight more, reports the BBC news of the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, according to Radio Free Europe.
The Russian agency says that residents of nearby streets are being evacuated.
The regional governor of Belgorod said earlier that Ukrainian forces carried out an attack on an oil warehouse in that city with military helicopters, and that two people were wounded, the BBC reports today.
Vyacheslav Gladkov stated on Telegram that the fire, which broke out this morning, was caused by an airstrike by two Ukrainian helicopters.
He also said that two people were wounded, but that their lives were out of danger.
Residents of nearby streets were evacuated while firefighters extinguished the fire, Gladkov said.
Videos appeared on social networks, supposedly showing the attack on Belgorod.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said today that he could not confirm or deny Ukraine's alleged involvement in the attack on a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod because he was not familiar with all the military information, reports Reuters.
Asked about the attack at a briefing in Poland, Kuleba said: "I can neither confirm nor deny the claim that Ukraine is involved in this only because I don't have all the military information."
Belgorod is located about 40 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border.
The security forces in the Kursk region have been put on high alert due to the events in Belgorod, said the governor of that region, Roman Starovoit, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) reports, referring to the Russian media Izvestia.
"Due to the events in Belgorod, all law enforcement agencies in the Kursk region have been put on alert," Strovoit wrote on Telegram.
Starovoit noted that he contacted the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, and offered help.
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