Blasts were reported at around 8 a.m. on Friday at a military facility in Smolensk, a city some 200 miles from Ukraine.
A military facility in western Russia is the site of the latest incident in which the Russians have said Ukraine has attacked their territory.
Blasts were reported at around 8 a.m. on Friday morning in Smolensk, located around 50 miles east of Russia’s border with Belarus and around 200 miles north of Ukraine.
As of September 2023, more than 190 suspected drone attacks on Russian territory involving military infrastructure and associated sites had been targeted, according to BBC Verify.
Video posted by Nexta, a pro-Ukrainian Eastern European news outlet, shows the moments when three explosions were heard and a flash appeared at around 8 a.
