Irmino attack
On the evening 26 April, residents of Russian-occupied cities in the area of Popasna, Luhansk Oblast, reported that Ukrainian artillery hit a Russian military facility in occupied Irmino about 20 kilometers from the front line.
The locals shared on social media videos of a large fire in Irmino accompanied by explosions:
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1519062472812081153
According to local reports on social media, two military facilities were hit in the town of Irmino, one being a storage of rockets for multiple rocket launchers and the other a base of self-propelled guns with an ammunition stockpile for them. Euromaidan Press couldn't immediately confirm the role and the number of the facilities in question.
The fire and explosions in Irmino lasted for at least several hours:
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In its reports, the Ukrainian military usually mention its successful attacks on Russian facilities in the Ukrainian territory. However, at the time of writing this article, there was no official confirmation of the Ukrainian involvement in this attack, and the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces didn't mention the fire in Irmino in the morning communique.
Belgorod fire
On the early morning of 27 April, Russia's Belgorod Oblast governor Vyachrslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram that at about 03:35 EEST that a loud sound similar to an explosion woke him up, and while he was writing that message, he heard "three more explosions." Local social media groups reported launches of air defense missiles.
At 04:41, Gladkov wrote
that according to preliminary information, an ammunition depot was on fire near the village of Staraya Nelidovka, adding that there were no damage to residential buildings and no one was injured. This village is located not far from Belgorod and lies 20 km from the Ukrainian border.
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1519146128465440769
A video showing the fire at the ammunition depot near Belgorod on 27 April 2022.
About 7 a.m. the Belgorod governor claimed that the "open conflagration has been liquidated." However, Russian media reported at about 10:00 that fire and explosions continued at the Staraya Nelidovka ammunition depot.
Not only Belgorod and Irmino
Last night, residents of two other regional regional capitals close to the Ukrainian border, Voronezh and Kursk, heard explosions, which reportedly were air defense missiles trying to shoot down unidentified flying objects.
On 25 April, a day before the fire at ammunition depots in Irmino, two oil depots caught fire after explosions in Bryansk, the west-Russian city 100 kilometers away from the Ukrainian border.
Explosions at fuel depots in Russia’s Bryansk: what we know so far
Meanwhile, Belgorod has already seen two allegedly Ukrainian attacks before. On 29 March, a fire and subsequent explosions occurred in an ammunition depot near Belgorod, then on 1 April, a fuel depot was on fire in the city, the Russian authorities of Belgorod claimed that Ukrainian helicopters had hit the oil depot while the Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov denied the claim.
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