The blaze comes as Moscow has weathered an increasing number of drone attacks that the government has blamed on Ukraine.
Videos have begun to circulate online showing a massive cloud of black smoke billowing up from a fire in Moscow.
The videos began to circulate on social media early Sunday morning, when the local time in Russia would have been sometime in the afternoon. Information about the blaze was slim, as of roughly 6 p.m. local time, but local reports indicated that it broke out at an industrial warehouse in Ramenskoye, a town in the southeast portion of the Moscow metropolitan area, with officials speculating that welding might have been the initial cause.
"Russian media report a large fire in an industrial warehouse in Moscow region," Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's minister of Internal Affairs, wrote in a post to X, the platform formerly known as . In the post, he also shared a video showing massive plumes of black smoke from afar, with hints of flame near the ground.
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