Posted on 05/01/2022 9:00:39 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
May 1 (Reuters) - One person was injured in a fire on a Russian defence ministry facility in the southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, Belgorod region governor said on Sunday.
Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a local resident suffered minor injuries and his life was not in danger. He also said that seven homes had been damaged as a result of the incident.
There were no comments from the defence ministry and it was not immediately clear what caused the fire. Reuters was unable to independently verify the statements.
Images posted to social media showed a large funnel of smoke rising above the ground. Reuters could not verify the reports.
Separately, the governor of the Kursk region which also shares a border with Ukraine said that a railway bridge had been damaged on a line used by freight trains.
Speaking in a video posted on his Telegram channel, governor Roman Starovoit called the incident an act of sabotage.
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Speaking in a video posted on his Telegram channel, governor Roman Starovoit called the incident an act of sabotage.
Given what has been happening in Ukraine, I was wondering if the Ukes were attacking the Russian rail system upon which so much of the Russian strategic mobility depends. Cut a stretch of track, they can repair it fairly quickly. But drop a span, and the railroad is out of commission for weeks, if not months. All infrastructure needs to be attacked when possible.
Russians bitching about being attacked has to be one of the funniest things in this war.
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