A fire broke out in one of the buildings of the Russian Ministry of Defense in Moscow on Znamenka Street, less than 500 meters from the Kremlin, Russian media reported..

“At 19 Znamenka Street, a fire started in one of the buildings on the territory of the Ministry of Defense. Intense burning is observed from a window on the third floor,"

The fire was given the second difficulty number out of five.. The cause of the fire is still unknown.

It is specified that the fire occurred in the Apraksin House - since 1987, the administrative services of the Russian Ministry of Defense have been located here.. Since 2019, the building has been undergoing reconstruction after a fire also occurred in the technical rooms of the neighboring building in 2016.

On the night of March 30, in the territory of the Sverdlovsk region of the Russian Federation, not far from the village of Pelim, an explosion occurred on the main gas pipeline, which resulted in a large-scale fire.