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Air defense system operating over Belgorod - local government

On Thursday night, Belgorod residents are posting on social networks videos featuring flashes in sky and sounds of distant explosions

MOSCOW, April 28. /TASS/. The air defense system is operating in the sky over Russia’s southern Belgorod region on Thursday night, the regional government’s press service said on Thursday.

"The air defense system is on over Belgorod," it said.

On Thursday night, Belgorod residents are posting on social networks videos featuring flashes in sky and sounds of distant explosions.

According to Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, sounds resembling explosions were heard in the sky over Belgorod on Wednesday night. Later, according to preliminary data, a fire occurred at a munitions depot near the village of Staraya Nelidovka in the Belgorod region.