Fire in Moscow. Flames have erupted at a substation on the grounds of the Zhukovsky Central Institute of Aerohydrodynamics (TsAGI) in the Moscow region, the main center of Russia’s aerospace industry.
This was reported by an informed source of the Russian agency Interfax: “A substation is burning in an area of 30 square kilometers at Zhukovsky Street No. 1,” said the source. The same source later explained that the fire was extinguished and no casualties were reported. Among the developments of the TsAGI is participation in the projects of the energy rocket and the space shuttle Buran.
Russia, another fire during the war
Today’s Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute is not the first fire that has occurred in the Russian Federation since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Among other things, on April 21 the flames developed in Tver, 150 kilometers northwest of Moscow, at the city’s Central Research Institute of Aerospace Defense Forces, Russia’s Cape Canaveral, which also deals with missile launch and defense systems.
Another major fire then broke out at the largest Russian solvent chemical plant in the town of Kineshma, 400 kilometers from the capital. On May 1, a new fire at the Perm plant in the central Urals, which produces gunpowder for weapons such as the Grad and Smerch missile systems. On May 3, a 33,800-square-meter warehouse, which media reports say is a warehouse belonging to the pro-Kremlin publishing house Prosveshchenie, went up in flames. On May 4, it was the turn of the Nizhny Novgorod industrial zone east of Moscow, where 2,000 square meters of a solvent depot burned down. Sources close to the Kremlin have not ruled out the possibility in recent weeks that the fires in sensitive Russian structures could be a result of the Kiev cyber war.