There was a huge explosion on a street in the Russian city of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine. (Representative)
Moscow:
A huge explosion rocked a street in the Russian city of Belgorod, which lies across the border with Ukraine, late Thursday, local officials said, but there were no initial reports of injuries.
Declaring a state of emergency, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on a telegram that there was a 20-metre-wide (65 ft) crater on one of the city’s main streets. He did not say what the reason was.
Video footage from the site showed piles of concrete in the street, several damaged cars and a building with broken windows. In one shot, an overturned car was visible on the roof of a shop.
Belgorod is one of several southern Russian regions where targets such as fuel and ammunition stores have been rocked by explosions since the start of Moscow’s “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
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