Ukraine War: These days in Russia there is a mysterious fire in many places (symbolic photo)

 A massive fire broke out in the factory of the publishing house of pro-parliament books in

Russia  .

It is being told that after the start of the Russia -Ukraine War

, this large publication of school books, located close to the capital Moscow,

was ordered to remove Ukraine's name from the books. 

Newsweek quoted   

Belarus' media Nexta as saying that video shows a fire breaking out at a pro-Russian parliament "Prosveshchenie" publishing house in Moscow's Bogorodsk area in the early hours of Tuesday, where printing materials are being used. was gathered." 

There is a large fire at the warehouse of the Pro-Kremlin "Prosveshchenie" publishing house near #Moscow.

Almost 34 thousand square meters are burning.



Around midnight a hangar in #Bogorodskoe district, where printed materials were stored, burst into flames.

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— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 3, 2022

This fire is another major fire that has hit sensitive places in Russia in recent weeks.

There have also been incidents of fires and explosions at Russia's large chemical plants, storage depots and defense research sites.

Russia has not commented on what is the reason behind these mysterious fire incidents.

Russia's emergency ministry told Russia's state-run

news agency Tass

that the fire broke out around 3 a.m. in a 34,000-square-meter area.

The entire building engulfed in flames."

According to Taas, there were books and printing goods in the warehouse of this publishing house.

In Nexta's video, it is seen that the entire building is burning in flames and smoke is rising.

Emergency services are trying to douse the fire.

The firefighters were finally able to douse the fire with the help of 100 men and 37 equipment.

No casualty has been reported so far in this incident.  

'Controversial Publishing Group'

Ukraine's Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashenko, reacting to the fire, said on his Telegram channel that when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an attack on Ukraine on 24 February, the publishing group's management was ordered to: At least mention of Kyiv and Ukraine should be made in school books.  

Gerashenko wrote, "Again, a big fire broke out in Russia, a fire broke out at the factory of a controversial textbook publication."

The Moscow Times 

has also confirmed this news, 


Three editors of Prosveshchenie, Russia's largest and oldest school books publishing group, told Russia's independent media outlet MediaZona on condition of anonymity, "employees should remove "inappropriate" mentions of Russia and its capital Kyiv from books. The job was done. Every employee was made to sign large-scale non-disclosure agreements on the condition of the job."

"We were given the task of pretending that Ukraine didn't even exist," said one employee.