A series of unusual fires and explosions have occurred in Russia since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine,[1][2] which have not been formally explained.[3] There have been many notable arson attacks on military recruitment offices in Russia since the beginning of the war,[4] and there has been speculation that some of the fires or explosions have been the result of sabotage efforts by Russian partisans[5] (such as Svoboda Rossii or Atesh partisan legion[6]) or Ukrainian saboteurs.[7]

Overview

A "yellow" (medium) terrorist threat level was introduced[8] in Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod oblasts, as well as some districts of Voronezh Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, and northern Crimea. Starting from the end of March, a series of incidents and explosions were reported in border regions of Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod, and Voronezh Oblasts. Russian officials reported mortar shelling, drone attacks, and helicopter gunship attacks allegedly coming "from the Ukrainian side".[ru 1][9][10]

The Ukrainian side refused to confirm or deny involvement in incidents at strategic locations.[11] There were allegations that some of the fires or explosions were the result of Ukrainian sabotage.[12][13]

In May, a series of incidents on railway lines in Russia impeded the deployment of troops and military equipment to Ukraine; responsibility for these incidents was claimed by the Internet movement "Stop the Wagons"[ru 2] (a reference to the Russian anti-war slogan "Stop the War").[ru 3][14]

List of reported fires

2022

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Location Date Facility Deaths Coordinates
Kstovo 22 March 2022 Oil depot[15]
Belgorod 1 April 2022 Oil depot[11] 1 50°35′29.8″N 36°40′13.1″E
Belgorod region 12 April 2022 Railway bridge[16]
Tver 21 April 2022 Central Research Institute of the Aerospace Defense Forces[17] 7
Kineshma 21 April 2022 Chemical plant[18]
Korolyov, Moscow Oblast 22 April 2022 Industrial zone where many enterprises of the space and rocket industry are located[19]
Barvikha 23 April 2022 Governor's residence in Moscow Region[20]
Bryansk 25 April 2022 Fuel depot holding 5,000 tonnes of fuel.[21] 2nd Branch of Military Unit 55443–90.[22]
Ussuriysk 25 April 2022 Military air base[23]
Belgorod 27 April 2022 Ammunition depot[24]
Moscow 28 April 2022 Fires and explosions on Moscow's Kustanayskaya street[25]
Ilyinskoye 30 April 2022 GRES-2 power plant[26] 52°1′26.3″N 75°28′34.5″E
Perm 1 May 2022 FKP gunpowder plant[27]
Moscow 3 May 2022 "Warehouse of a pro-Kremlin publishing house".[28]
Nizhny Novgorod 4 May 2022 Industrial zone[29]
Nizhnevartovsk 4 May 2022 Military enlistment office[30]
Kursk 5 May 2022 Unknown[31]
Perm 8 May 2022 Aviation college[27]
Dubovoye, Belgorod Oblast 11 May 2022 Unknown[32]
Teysin, Amursky district 12 May 2022 Military installation[33]
Berdsk 17 May 2022 Chemical plant[34]
Zhukovsky 21 May 2022 Fire at the substation in TsAGI (aviation institute)[35]
Moscow 24 May 2022 Saint Peter and Paul Church[36][37]
Moscow 3 June 2022 Grand Setun Plaza Building, business center with Pension Fund of Russia offices[38]
Komsomolsk-on-Amur 4 June 2022 Rosgvardia (National Guard of the Russian Federation) building[39]
Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod 8 June 2022 Rosatom (Nuclear) Institute of Digital Technologies[40]
Sergiyev Posad 8 June 2022 Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant warehouse (optical, thermal & night-vision sighting systems)[41]
Vladivostok 8 June 2022 Military enlistment office[42]
Ust-Luga 10 June 2022 "Factor" timber terminal[43] owned by oligarch Ramis Deberdeyev
near Gulevka 11 June 2022 Druzhba pipeline[44]
Angarsk 23 June 2022 LPG station (liquefied petroleum gas station)[45] 0
Moscow 3 July 2022 Residential skyscraper[46]
near Moscow 3 August 2022 e-commerce warehouse[47] 1
Volokolamsk 12 September 2022 Plastic chip depot warehouse[48]
Novokuznetsk 26 September 2022 Steel plant owned by Putin ally Roman Abramovich[49] 0
Moscow 9 October 2022 Television and radio tower[50]
Belgorod 11 October 2022 Electricity substation[51]
Ryazan 21 October 2022 Gunpowder factory[52] 16
Saint Petersburg 26 October 2022 Warehouse[53] 0
Stalnoi Kon 16 November 2022 Oil depot[54] 0
near Saint Petersburg 19 November 2022 Gas pipeline[55] 0
Moscow 21 November 2022 Warehouse near three railway stations[56] 5
Angarsk 27 November 2022 Angarsk Petrochemical Plant (largest oil refinery in Russia)[57] 0
Surazh 29 November 2022 Oil storage tank[58] 0
Perm 30 November 2022 Thermal Power Plant #9 (roof of the turbine room)[59] 0
Khimki 9 December 2022 MEGA Khimki Shopping Centre, explosion and fire covering 18,000 square metres (190,000 sq ft)[60][61] 1[60] 55°54′40.1″N 37°23′47.1″E
Barnaul 9 December 2022 Tyre manufacturing plant[62] 0
Moscow 10 December 2022 Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts[63] 0 55°44′48.4″N 37°36′11.5″E
Balashikha 12 December 2022 Shopping center[64] 0 55°43′31″N 37°59′14″E
Nizhnekamsk 12 December 2022 Synthetic rubber factory[65] 0
Saint Petersburg 13 December 2022 Machine-building plant[66] 0
Angarsk 15 December 2022 Angarsk Petrochemical Plant[67] 2
Vladivostok 17 December 2022 Confectionery factory warehouse[68] 0
Snezhinsk 18 December 2022 Shopping center[69] 0
Verkhnemarkovo, Irkutsk Oblast 18 December 2022 Oil and gas condensate field[70] 0 57°20′14″N 107°03′09″E
Kalinino, Chuvashia 20 December 2022 Gas pipeline[71] 3
Kurgan 20 December 2022 Kamaz auto service center[72] 0
Murmansk 22 December 2022 Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier[73] 0
Moscow 23 December 2022 Military base[74] 0
Murmansk 24 December 2022 Supply base[75] 0
Novosibirsk 26 December 2022 Warehouse[76]
Saint Petersburg 29 December 2022 Warehouse[77][78] 0
Kronstadt 30 December 2022 Oil tanker[79] 0
Rostov Nuclear Power Plant 31 December 2022 Transformer substation[citation needed] 1
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2023

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Location Date Facility Deaths Coordinates
Novy Oskol 3 January 2023 Military facility[80]
Saint Petersburg 5 January 2023 Agricultural machinery plant[81] 2
Moscow 6 January 2023 Foreign Ministry[82] 0
Barnaul 8 January 2023 Shopping center[83] 0
Bratsk 9 January 2023 Military enlistment office[84][85] 0
Moscow 10 January 2023 Auto service[86] 0
Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk Oblast 10 January 2023 Sosnovaya Liniya timber mill[87] 0
Moscow 11 January 2023 Construction site[88] 0
Saint Petersburg 12 January 2023 Warehouse[89] 0
Manzherok, Altai Republic 17 January 2023 Hotel[90] 0
Angarsk 21 January 2023 Oil depot[91]
Kirov 25 January 2023 Church[92] 0
Moscow 28 January 2023 Warehouse[93]
Kstovo 7 February 2023 Oil refinery[94] 0
Novoshakhtinsk 8 February 2023 Oil refinery[95] 0
Yeremeytsevo, Yaroslavl Oblast 13 February 2023 Pipeline[96] 0
Krasnoyarsk 13 February 2023 Warehouse[97] 0
Yangiskain, Bashkortostan 13 February 2023 Livestock complex[98] 0
Moscow 14 February 2023 Car service station[99] 0
Kazan 14 February 2023 Rubber warehouse[100]
Kolomna 14 February 2023 Warehouse[101]
Magadan 17 February 2023 Truck warehouse[102]
Ufa 17 February 2023 Chemical plant[103] 0
Krasnoyarsk 22 February 2023 Warehouse[104] 0
Moscow 26 February 2023 Textile plant[105] 0
Tuapse 28 February 2023 Oil terminal[106] 0
Saint Petersburg 1 March 2023 Warehouse[107] 0
Saint Petersburg 2 March 2023 Textile warehouse and office complex[108] 1
Vidnoye, Moscow Oblast 5 March 2023 Coke and gas works[109]
Moscow 7 March 2023 Interior Ministry building[110]
Kolyubakino, Moscow Oblast 11 March 2023 Plastic production facility[111] 0
Moscow 11 March 2023 Spas TV office building[112] 0
Odintsovo 13 March 2023 Warehouse[citation needed] 0
Rostov-on-Don 16 March 2023 FSB building[113] 1
Dolgoprudny 18 March 2023 Chemical plant[114] 0
Yaroslavl 23 March 2023 Yaroslavl Motor Plant[115] 0
Aramil, Sverdlovsk Oblast 24 March 2023 Research-and-production enterprise[116] 0
Aksay, Rostov Oblast 25 March 2023 Warehouse[117] 0
Pelym, Sverdlovsk Oblast 30 March 2023 Gas pipeline[118] 0
Moscow 5 April 2023 Defense ministry[119] 0
Voronezh 7 April 2023 Aircraft plant[120] 0
Nakhabino, Moscow Oblast 10 April 2023 Auto parts warehouse[121][122] 0
Kazan 16 April 2023 Tank training ground[123] 0
Stavropol 4 May 2023 Concrete production plant[124] 0
Moscow 4 May 2023 Administrative building[125] 0
Odintsovo 30 May 2023 Paper warehouse[126] 3
Novocherkasskaya, Rostov Oblast 14 June 2023 Power station [127] 0
Voronezh 24 June 2023 Fuel depot [128] 0
Sergiyev Posad 9 August 2023 Optics plant[note 1][129] 2
Makhachkala, Dagestan 14 August 2023 Fuel station[131][132] 35
St. Petersburg 3 September 2023 Ruchi oil depot[133]
Krasnoyarsk 4 October Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter[134]
Moscow 26 October 2023 Thermoelectric Power Plant[135]
Chelyabinsk 26 November 2023 Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant[136]
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2024

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NASA's FIRMS detected the fire at the Vysotsk LNG terminal from 2024-05-17 23:16:00 (UTC) to 2024-05-20 00:20:00 (UTC)
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Location Date Facility Deaths Coordinates
near St Petersburg 21 January 2024 Gas terminal[137]
Belgorod 15 February 2024 Shopping center[138] 4-6
Vysotsk 18 May 2024 LNG terminal[139] 60.61°N 28.56°E / 60.61; 28.56
Vyborg 19 May 2024 Oil depot[140] 60.71°N 28.74°E / 60.71; 28.74
Moscow[141] 14 June 2024 Sukhoi Design Bureau
Moscow 24 June 2024 Platan Research Institute[142] 8
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See also

Notes

  1. Initially reported as an optics plant,[129] though the Governor of Moscow, Andrey Vorobyov, later claimed it was a pyrotechnics plant.[130]

Original Russian terms

  1. со стороны Украины, so storony Ukrainy
  2. Останови вагоны, Ostanovi vagony
  3. Останови войну!, Ostanovi voinu!

References

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