A power plant in the Russian city of Belgorod, on the border with Ukraine, allegedly caught fire on Friday after an attack by Ukrainian forces, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said, AFP reports.
“After the attack, the power plant in Belgorod caught fire (…),” Gladkov wrote in Telegram, adding that it would take “up to four hours” to activate the backup infrastructure and restore the power supply. It is not known how many people were affected by the outage.
It seems that someone carelessly threw a cigarette butt on the territory of Luch TPP in Belgorod pic.twitter.com/iYl4vsns68
— Special Kherson cat uD83DuDC08uD83CuDDFAuD83CuDDE6 (@bayraktar_1love) October 14, 2022
The municipal thermal power plant “Luch” is burning. #Belhorod
It is reported that several rockets were fired in the direction #Ukraine didn’t fly there. There are problems with light in the city.
Local mass media published footage of the “entry” to the substation. pic.twitter.com/Mjow0WQNVC
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) October 14, 2022
On Friday morning, Russian state media reported that several people were killed and injured in an explosion at an ammunition depot in the Belgorod region, on the border with Ukraine.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened an investigation in connection with the alleged detonation by Ukrainian military personnel of an ammunition warehouse in the village of Oktyabrskyi in the Belgorod region of Russia, the Russian state agencies RIA Novosti and TASS report.
Source: Hot News RU
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