Russia, what is known about the mysterious incidents
Russia is facing a series of massive accidents and fires. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano
A series of large-scale incidents, which have occurred across Russia in recent days, are sparking speculation that the Russian Federation may experience a wave of attacks on its strategic infrastructure. Incidents include massive fires in power plants, ammunition depots and state-owned storage facilities. The collapse of at least one railway bridge has also been reported. There are further reports of massive fires raging across Siberia, which are placing heavy demands on Russia's emergency response infrastructure.
On April 21, a massive fire engulfed the Russian Defense Ministry's Central Research Institute for Air and Space Defense in Tver, a city located about 120 miles northwest of Moscow. According to the Associated Press , the institute "has been involved in the development of some of the state-of-the-art Russian weapon systems, including the Iskander missile." The next morning, at least 17 people were believed to have died as a result of the fire.
At the end of last week, the Sakhalinskaya GRES-2 power plant, a vast 120-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Russia's far eastern Sakhalin province, went up in flames, giving rise to persistent rumors of sabotage. On May 1, Russian state news agencies reported that a railway bridge in the western province of Kursk, 70 miles from the Ukrainian border, had been destroyed. Analysts at the Washington-based Atlantic Council think tank said the bridge had been used extensively by the Russian military to transport equipment to eastern Ukraine. Later on the same day, fuel oil tanks in Mytishchi, a medium-sized city located northeast of Moscow, was completely destroyed by a rapidly spreading fire.
On 2 May, an ammunition factory in Perm, a major urban center in Western Siberia, was hit by a "powerful" explosion. Ukrainian government officials hinted at the sabotage in social media posts, although no evidence was provided and the Kremlin did not comment on the matter. The following day, the warehouse of the Prosveshchenie publishing house in Bogorodskoye, northeast of Moscow, was destroyed by a huge fire. The warehouse belongs to the Russian state publisher of school textbooks. The fire occurred almost simultaneously when another fire engulfed a polyethylene waste storage facility in the central Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Meanwhile, the forests surrounding Krasnoyarsk and other Siberian urban centers are experiencing seasonal fires of an almost unprecedented scale. Some early reports claimed that the Russian government was finding it difficult to contain these fires because the country's emergency response personnel were sent to the forefront of the war in Ukraine. But these reports were denied by the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, which said earlier this week the fires were mostly under control.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/incidenti-incendi-russia/ on Sun, 15 May 2022 06:08:17 +0000.