A huge plume of smoke could be seen rising from the explosion at a former optics plant now used as pyrotechnics dump in Sergiev Posad, in the Moscow district.
Videos shared on Telegram show a massive mushroom-like plume rising over a city near Moscow after news media reported a huge explosion at a military-linked facility in the Russian capital region.
This screengrab from social media shows the mushroom cloud in the Russian city of Sergiev Posad, Moscow region, after an explosion occurred at the Zagorsk optical-mechanical plant on August 9, 2023.The governor of the Moscow region, Andrey Vorobyov, said that the buildings near the plant were evacuated, as reported by Russian media on Telegram. The Russian Emergency Ministry issued a report confirming that the explosion was reported to authorities at 10:45 a.m.
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