On Tuesday evening, explosions were reported outside the Russian city of Belgorod. This is just around 50 kilometres from Kharkiv, Ukraine, which has been bombed by Russian soldiers in recent weeks.

According to Russian media, four personnel were injured as a consequence of one explosion.
It then retracted its report.

Twitter user @JimmySecUK, who covers security, tweeted an article from Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency that described the explosion’s impact.

“Four personnel were wounded when a shell hit a military base in the Belgorod area,” he translated.

“TASS have erased the tweet above, probably because confessing to a successful strike on Russian territory is little humiliating,” he wrote around 10 minutes later.
The veracity of stories is yet uncertain — and may remain so in the future.

Belgorod Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov added to the confusion by stating there were no victims.

According to him, blasts happened near the town of Krasny Oktyabr.

This location is approximately 19 miles southwest of Belgorod.

He did not offer an explanation for the explosion, but did say he will share more details later.