Liberty has gathered information that is known at the moment.

Fire or blast?

Most Russian media outlets cited sources in Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, claiming it was a fire.

It is known that the Russian emergency services received information about the fire and at the second hour of the night sent 158 ​​firefighters and 51 units of equipment from Voronezh, Kalush, Kursk, Orel, Smolensk, Tula regions and Moscow.

According to them, no one was injured.

However, in the morning a video from one of the nearby surveillance cameras was spread on the Internet, showing sounds similar to the sounds of a rocket and an explosion.

Witnesses later found and quoted by Russian media also confirmed that the fire was preceded by two explosions, but they did not hear any sounds similar to the sounds of helicopters or planes.

Officials do not report possible versions of the causes of the fire.

The official websites of Bryansk and Bryansk region do not have any information about fires at oil depots.

Who owns the oil depots

It is known that the fire engulfed two tanks with a capacity of 10 and 5 thousand tons.

They stored diesel fuel.

The largest consumer of this type of fuel is the Russian army and its military equipment.

The oil depots are owned by Transneft-Druzhba, a subsidiary of Russia's Transneft, which has 11 production facilities.

Transneft also owns the Druzhba pipeline, which supplies oil from Russia via Belarus to Europe.

In April this year, several countries imposed sanctions on Transneft in response to Russia's military invasion of Ukraine.

Who may be involved in the fires

In February this year, two missiles hit a military airfield near the Ukrainian border in the Rostov region.

Then the sources of Rostov media in law enforcement agencies claimed that the airfield was attacked by Ukrainian troops.

Several people were injured then, but the planes were not damaged.

Russia later blamed Ukraine for similar attacks on the Belgorod, Rostov and Kursk regions.

But experts have refuted all these allegations.

At the official political and military level, Ukraine has not commented on these cases at all.

In all these cases, the facilities were close to the border with Ukraine.

From Bryansk, the nearest point in the Sumy region of Ukraine is at a distance of 123 kilometers.

Not only oil depots were destroyed in Bryansk

Later, one of the Ukrainian telegram channels reported that the railway leading to one of Russia's military units was also damaged in the Bryansk region.

However, there is no official confirmation of this incident yet.

The day before, on April 24, in the Bryansk region, exercises were held to check fire safety at social facilities, and from April 12 to 14 - all-Russian command and staff exercises to eliminate natural fires.