Another blast rocks Moscow as huge inferno erupts at warehouse

A massive fire has broken out in Russia, with video showing warehouses ablaze.

Social media reports say it broke out near a toll road in the western industrial zone of Odintsovo, near Moscow.

Preliminary information holds that warehouses are on fire, but the cause of the fire is unknown.

But it comes just a week after Russia said it shot down two Ukrainian drones in the Odintsovo and Naro-Fominsk districts.

Posting on Russian social media network VKontakte (VK), verified user Typical Odintsovo shared the clip.

The account then added that the fire was localized in an area of ​​2,000 square meters.

The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Moscow Region added: “In Odintsovo on Zelenaya Street, 30a, a warehouse caught fire on an area of ​​2,000 square meters.

“There were no reports of casualties.”

State media outlet TASS confirmed the news, noting that Odintsovo is to the west of Moscow between Vladimir Putin’s official residence and the Vnukovo airport.

On August 1, it was reported that a Moscow high-rise building, housing Russian government ministries, was hit by a drone for the second time in just three days.

The same day, air defence systems shot down the two drones in Odintsovo and Naro-Fominsk, in what the Russian defence ministry called an “attempted terrorist attack”.

And back in May, three people died in the same region when a fire broke out in a paper warehouse.

It comes the same day as a fire broke out at a gasoline production unit of the Mozyr oil refinery in southeastern Belarus.

First responders put out the fire, and the incident is being investigated, the ministry wrote. No casualties were reported.

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But earlier, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said it had gathered intelligence indicating that Russia was preparing a large-scale false flag operation at the refinery.

Under the alleged plan, a Russian sabotage-reconnaissance group would carry out a “provocation” at the refinery, the SBU wrote on August 4.

Moscow would then blame the attack on Kyiv in an attempt to drive Belarus into the war against Ukraine.

It also comes as Poland prepares to send 10,000 troops to its border with Belarus.

The Polish defence minister today said forces will be deployed over concerns about Wagner mercenaries entering the country.

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