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Tonight a fire broke out at the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow which is throwing up many Doubts about the seriousness of what happened. Although the fire appeared to occur in one of the balconies of the buildingRussia’s attitude towards the event – the state agency TASS first reported it and then later deny that there was such a fire– makes you suspect what could have burned.
“A fire broke out on a balcony of the Ministry of Defense building on Frunzenskaya Naberezhnaya,” TASS reported. at 00:03 crazy timeHe, citing the emergency services, which moved to the area to extinguish the fire. At the same time, videos started circulating on social media with pictures of the fire.
Shortly after, at 00:54 hours, Russia denied its own information former: “The Ministry of Emergency Situations did not detect a fire in the building of the Defense Ministry in Moscow,” the Emergencies Ministry’s Main Directorate told reporters.
Unknown smoke near the Defense Ministry building in Moscow
Earlier, Russian media reported a fire on a balcony at the Defense Ministry building. However, the Ministry of Emergency Situations later stated that there was no fire in the ministry building.
The cause of the unknown… pic.twitter.com/Sw9nrOiLVQ
– NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 24, 2023
“The fact of the fire has not been confirmed, since no fire was found upon arrival of firefighters. Just as there were no reports of victims,” said the press service of the capital’s administration in a statement.
However, the denial came late, since several residents of the neighborhood had reported a “strong pungent odor” and there were videos of the incident. In one of them, published by , smoke was seen around the Ministry of Defense and a woman who said: “The smell of burning is horrible.“.
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Although the causes of the fire are unknown – Russia has not yet even admitted that there was such a fire – at first the Emergencies Ministry told the Moskva news agency that the cause of the smoke was “the starting of a generator”.
The NEXTA media, for its part, has reported that the origin of the fire is actually in a teapot: “It is unknown what really burned in the Ministry of Defense building. Maybe they burned documents“.
The fire occurred shortly after another, whose images are much more shocking, which took place in an area of 500 square meters of an Akos market, located 15 kilometers from the Ministry of Defense. There, a large column of black smoke rose over the citywhich has caused many to mistakenly attribute it to the later Ministry of Defense.
Major fire breaks out in market near Russian Ministry of Defense in Moscow pic.twitter.com/ZH5BTk4LjV
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