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Russia’s only factory producing self-propelled artillery installations caught fire

Russia’s only factory producing self-propelled artillery installations caught fire

In Yekaterinburg, russia, a fire broke out on the territory of the Ural Transport Engineering Plant, the country's only manufacturer of self-propelled artillery installations.

This is evidenced by the reports of the russian media and local Telegram channels.

The local publication E1 reported that it became known about the smoke in the area of ​​the Uraltransmash plant around 10:40 a.m. Kyiv time.

Local residents could observe a column of yellow smoke rising above one of the buildings on the plant's territory.

Eyewitnesses later shared a video showing smoke rising from Uraltransmash covering part of the city.

According to the publication, the roof of an allegedly empty workshop allegedly caught fire.

The press service of Uraltransmash stated that the fire occurred during dismantling work in one of the warehouses. The area of ​​the fire was 200 square meters.

There is no information about the dead or injured as a result of the incident.

Local Telegram channels published photos taken by eyewitnesses of the fire at the plant.

Uraltransmash is a factory that produces military equipment, as well as tram cars and railway products. It is the only manufacturer of self-propelled artillery installations.

The company is on the sanctions lists of Ukraine, the United States and the European Union, as it produces artillery installations used by the russian occupation army.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on July 16, an accident occurred at the Gusinoozyorskaya power plant in russian Buryatia, as a result of which 115,000 residents of the region were left without electricity.

Recall that at the beginning of June in the russian Republic of Komi, the Lukoil oil refinery caught fire. Before the fire, locals heard the sound of an explosion.

Besides, in April of this year, Ukraine attacked an enterprise for the production of attack drones in the Republic of Tatarstan of the russian federation.