“After assessing the characteristics of the fire on the ground, experts of the fire-fighting railway rolling stock, together with the fire brigades of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, began to eliminate it,” the Defense Ministry said.
As it became known earlier, more than 1.6 thousand people have already been evacuated from 14 settlements of the Ryazan region.
According to the Western Military District, a fire occurred at an artillery ammunition depot near the village of Zheltukhino due to a burnt grass.
The Caspian federal highway was blocked.
The head of EMERCOM of Russia Evgeny Zinichev flies to the scene.
Military prosecutors began checking in connection with the fire.