Three border provinces, including an ammunition store, in the Belgorod province, were affected by explosions, according to Russian police.

Authorities reported a series of explosions were heard in three Russian regions bordering Ukraine in the early hours of Wednesday, and an ammunition store in the Belgorod area caught fire around the same time.

Vyacheslav Gladkov, the regional governor of Belgorod, claimed no citizens were hurt in the fire, which started near Staraya Nelidovka village and was quickly put out.

Russia accused Ukraine of assaulting a gasoline station in Belgorod with helicopters and shelling numerous communities in the area earlier this month.
The province of Belgorod borders the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Sumy, and Kharkiv, which have all seen heavy fighting since Russia invaded Ukraine two months ago.
Separately, Roman Starovoyt, the governor of Russia’s Kursk province, which shares a border with Ukraine, claimed early Wednesday that explosions might have been heard in Kursk city, which were most likely the sounds of air defence systems firing.
Later, he added that a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was intercepted in the sky over the Kursk region, but that no one was hurt or anything was damaged.

Two blasts were heard in Voronezh, the administrative centre of another region bordering Ukraine, according to Russia’s TASS news agency, which cited an emergency ministry official who said the authorities were investigating.

Russia announced it would sent investigators to the districts of Kursk and Voronezh to document “illegal conduct by the Ukrainian army.”