In Belgorod, following a series of explosions reportedly caused by a missile strike, the logistics warehouses of the company 'Estate Logistic' caught fire. This is reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing the OSINT channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+. Photos and videos from the scene of the fire have already appeared online: a dense column of smoke and dust rose over the city, and the footage shows active burning of warehouse buildings against the backdrop of urban development and a green zone.

Course of events

According to available information, the fire at the logistics complex arose immediately after the series of explosions in Belgorod. As noted by OSINT channels, the fire is of the nature of the aftermath of a missile hit, rather than a technological accident: flames and smoke are recorded at several points simultaneously, and the smoke screen in the photographs covers a significant portion of the horizon. No confirmed data on casualties among the civilian population is provided as of the time of preparation of this material.

Which facilities may have been damaged

Preliminary data from the Supernova+ channel suggests that the strike may have affected not only the 'Estate Logistic' warehouses, but also nearby facilities in the area of the local CHP (combined heat and power plant), as well as the warehouse complex of the company Ozon. A number of Ukrainian media outlets, in particular 'Hromadske'/Svoboda, in their reports indicate that it was specifically the CHP and the Ozon warehouse that were hit. Thus, the list of damaged facilities as of the time of publication remains preliminary and is being clarified.

Contradictory data

There are discrepancies between the reports of sources regarding the exact list of damaged facilities. RBC-Ukraine, relying on Exilenova+ and Supernova+, emphasizes the fire at the 'Estate Logistic' logistics warehouses as the main confirmed fact. At the same time, Supernova+ formulates the hit on facilities near the CHP and the Ozon warehouse as a possibility ('may have been struck'), whereas other outlets present these facilities as actually hit. In addition, some of the materials found (for example, reports on the missile strike of August 5, as a result of which, according to Focus, 17 people were killed on the territory of Ukraine) describe a different event and are not related to the incident in Belgorod, so they cannot be used in fact-checking to confirm the details of this particular strike. The final list of damaged facilities and the presence of possible casualties require additional verification.

Context: a series of strikes on Belgorod

Belgorod and Belgorod Oblast, according to open-source data, are periodically subjected to strikes on energy and logistics facilities. On the night of July 25, logistics warehouses and energy facilities in the city were on fire, in particular the 'Luch' CHP and the 'Yuzhnaya' substation. In early July, after a missile strike on the CHP, part of the city was left without electricity. The current incident with the fire at the 'Estate Logistic' warehouses fits into this series of strikes on the city's infrastructure.