KIEV/MOSCOW, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- A fire broke out at a Defense Ministry facility in Russia's Volgograd Region following a Ukrainian missile attack in the night between Wednesday and Thursday, Ukrainian media outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported.
Ukrainska Pravda said that Ukraine's defense forces struck an arsenal of the Russian army's Main Missile and Artillery Directorate in Russia's Volgograd Region, causing a fire and explosions.
Russian authorities confirmed that a fire had broken out at a Defense Ministry facility near Kotluban. Russia's air forces repelled the missile attack and falling debris caused by the fire, reported Russian news agency RIA Novosti, citing Andrei Bocharov, governor of the Volgograd region.
Russian air defense units had been repelling a missile attack when falling debris caused the blaze and no civilian casualties or damage to residential infrastructure had been reported, Bocharov added.
Residents of nearby Kotluban were being evacuated as a precaution due to the risk of detonation, RIA Novosti reported. ■
