Webdesk: Rostov region Governor Vasily Golubev said Friday that up to 15 people were hurt in an explosion near a cafe called Chekhov Garden in Taganrog, which is in the southwest of Russia and borders Ukraine.
“It is said that a rocket blew up. Helpers are on the way. No one is dead. “Ambulances have been sent to help a number of people who are hurt,” Governor Golubev said on Telegram.
Afterward, he said that 15 people had “light injuries.”
The explosion happened at the same time that the Russian defence ministry said in a separate statement that it had stopped a Ukrainian rocket whose pieces had hurt more than a dozen people in the Russian city of Taganrog, which is near the border with Ukraine.
“The Ukrainian rocket was spotted by Russian air defences, which cut it off in the air. While, Russia’s defence ministry said that parts of the Ukrainian rocket that was shot down fell in Taganrog.
Moreover, In a different event, a blast happened Friday at the Kuibyshev oil refinery in Samara, a Russian lawmaker named Alexander Khinshtein told the news agency Tass.
“Today, there was a big explosion at the Kuibyshev oil plant in Samara. “Based on what we know so far, it was a bomb,” he wrote on his Telegram account.
No one was hurt, and there was no major harm.
The Kuibyshev plant is one of the biggest oil companies in the Samara Region, according to Russian media. It was founded in 1945.
