A fire occurred in a building on the territory of the Zvezda machine-building factory in Saint Petersburg. It produces diesel engines, including those for the Russian Navy.

The fire spread over an area of up to 200 square meters.

Russian media reported this with reference to local rescuers.

“There is a fire on an area of 200 square meters in a two-story building measuring 50 by 100 m,” the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the region reported.

Seven units of equipment and 35 people were deployed to extinguish the fire.

No information on the victims of the fire is yet available. The causes of the fire are currently being established.

The fire was reported at 06:38 am Moscow time, and at 08:53 am, emergency services announced the localization of the fire.

On the morning of December 13, the press service of the Zvezda factory reported that there allegedly were no extraordinary incidents on the territory of the enterprise. They claim that a building that has nothing to do with the plant was on fire in the industrial zone.

Zvezda factory was founded in 1932. Since 1945, the enterprise has specialized in the production of high-speed diesel engines and units based on them with a capacity of 500 to 7400 kW.

The enterprise also produces engines for warships and railway transport, as well as diesel generators and industrial units.

As previously reported, on November 30, an oil storage tank is on fire in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation. The fire occurred in the Surazh district of the region. The area on fire is 1,800 square meters.

The Russians did not report the cause of the fire at the time. The Surazh district is located in the northwest of the Bryansk region and does not border the territory of Ukraine.