On the night of February 4, a large-scale fire occurred at an oil depot in the town of Borisovka, in the Belgorod region of Russia.

Local social media reports that the flames were climbing up 50 meters.

As claimed by the eyewitnesses, it was tanks with petroleum products that caught fire. The fire could be seen a few kilometers from the oil depot itself.

“Tanks are on fire, there are a lot of firefighters at the scene. Flames about 50 meters high are visible for many kilometers,” social media says.

The production of the Borisov Bridge Steel Structure Plant has reportedly suffered serious damage by fire from the oil depot.

It is noted that this enterprise produced metal structures for the construction of the Crimean bridge across the Kerch Strait, connecting the occupied Ukrainian Crimea with the aggressor state.

According to the Russian local authorities, the fire allegedly occurred as a result of shells.

On his Telegram channel, the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote about this.

“The shells hit the territory of the industrial plant. According to preliminary information, no one was injured: people were successfully evacuated to a safe distance. An operational headquarters has been formed. All emergency services have arrived at the site,” wrote Gladkov.

Eyewitnesses also post on social media that before the ignition they heard the sounds of small arms and explosions.

Moreover, the windows got broken in some Russian homes.

It should be recalled that in January, the Russian Forpost-RU reconnaissance and strike UAV crashed in the Belgorod region.The incident left part of the region without electricity for a while. De-energization was caused by the damage to high-voltage power lines.