Media: Fuel warehouse in Russia's Ufa on fire.

A fuel and lubricant warehouse in the city of Ufa in Russia is on fire, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti and Russian media outlet msknet.ru reported. The affected warehouse is reportedly at the city's railway station. Russian media claim that railway tracks are also on fire.

The Russian media shared footage by the residents, showing fire and black smoke rising above the city. Local emergency services are reportedly working on the site. There is no information about the cause of the fire.

Ufa, the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan Republic, lies 1,520 km east of Moscow and 550 km north of Kazakhstan's border. On May 9, Russian media reported[1] a forest fire in Sverdlovsk Oblast that threatened 18 warehouses, including a gunpowder storage facility. Since the start of Russia's all-out war against Ukraine[2] on Feb.

24, 2022, there have been multiple reports about fires breaking out across Russia and other incidents which some believe to be carried out by the Ukrainian military or local partisan groups.

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Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He also volunteers as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukrainer.

Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.

References

1. ^ reported (kyivindependent.com)
2. ^ war against Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
3. ^ This Week in Ukraine Ep.

   5 - Everything we know about Ukrainian attacks inside Russia"This Week in Ukraine" is a video podcast hosted by Kyiv Independent's reporter Anastasiia Lapatina.

   Every week, Anastasiia sits down with her newsroom colleagues to discuss Ukraine's most pressing issues.

   Episode #5 is dedicated to Ukrainian attacks deep behind enemy lines - on Russian soil, and i... (kyivindependent.com)