fire a Flywhere a long column of black smoke is coming from a building of the Russian Defense Ministry. The news broke with a video posted to social media, pinpointed around 7:30 p.m. local time, in the center of the Russian capital. Local media later confirmed this in a building near the Kremlin Znamenka StreetA fire broke out in the former military academy of Alexandrovsk. The flames were allegedly caused by faulty wiring. Arbatskaya Square is the headquarters of the Russian Defense Ministry, built in the 1940s.
“A fire broke out in one of the buildings of the Ministry of Defense at 19 Znamenka Street. A fierce fire was detected from a window on the third floor,” reports the Russian state news agency Tass, quoting one of the rescuers who were on site. It is not the first time that a fire has broken out in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. A similar event happened in 2016 when the flames also caused a roof to collapse.
However, on March 16, the FSB (Internal Intelligence Service) building in Rostov was attacked, where a major fire broke out, killing and injuring several people. In the same week, other mysterious explosions were recorded in Sevastopol and Simferopol in Russian-occupied Crimea, while on Sunday, April 2, a bomb exploded in a bar in St. Petersburg, killing blogger Vladlen Tatarsky.