On the evening of October 13, a video of a fire appeared on the network in the Oktyabrsky village of the Belgorod region of the Belgorod region. The local Belplus Telegram channel published several videos of eyewitnesses, one of them claimed that something was on fire in the area of the sugar factory (the Dmitrotaranovsky sugar factory is located in the village).
Later, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, stated in his Telegram channel that the Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up an ammunition depot in the village. He did not specify the name of the village.
“There was a detonation. According to preliminary data, there are no victims or injured. Residents will now be taken to a safe distance. The head of the district, Vladimir Pertsev, and operational services are on site.”
Earlier, on October 13, the mayor of Belgorod, Anton Ivanov, said that rocket fragments had hit a multi-storey residential building. According to Governor Gladkov, we are talking about an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian side (in particular, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko) believes that we can talk about the work of the Russian air defense system.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the Belgorod region has come under fire more often than other Russian regions. Explosions occur in the border areas, villages are shelled. In early October, Gladkov reported on the shelling of a substation in Shebekino by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a couple of days later he said that Ukraine had shelled a customs checkpoint in the same city, as a result, the border crossing practically "ceased to exist." On September 28, an explosion occurred in the Valuisky urban district near the border, 14 people were injured. Gladkov said that "due to the human factor" the ammunition detonated. In August, a number of explosions thundered in the region, then Gladkov claimed that the air defense (air defense) had worked .