Putin to hold emergency meeting on suspicious fires across Russia

[Chris]

Putin to hold emergency meeting on suspicious fires across Russia
While the Kremlin makes out the raging fires as a seasonal event, dozens of fires in key facilities have broken out across the country in what cannot be simply brushed off as "seasonal wildfires."
By ROMAN MEITAV
Published: MAY 9, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting regarding dozens of destructive fires in a number of regions all across Russia on May 10, the Kremlin press service reported. A state of emergency was introduced in 77 areas of the Russian Federation throughout the Kurgan region and in one municipality in Khakassia. A special fire emergency was declared in 49 regions of the country, according to the Kremlin press service.

Putin will receive reports from several government sources, including the acting head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexander Chupriyan, the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources Alexander Kozlov and about a dozen governors and heads of regions. While the Kremlin makes out the raging fires as a seasonal event, dozens of fires in key facilities have broken out across the country since the invasion of Ukraine.

On May 5, a series of large fires broke out in the city of Kursk, which borders Ukraine. The fire was confirmed by Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations and has completely burned down a gunpowder plant, killing at least two workers.

more............... https://www.jpost.com/international/article-706232

 

[daygo]

Interesting.

 

[anasazi]

Probably being set by "Woke Russians".

 

[Baby Yoda]

Are they burning down food processing plants like they are here?

 

[Andy C]

It must be easy for a Ukrainian who is Russian, to sneak back in Russia, blend in, and seek payback via fires. Just speculating on my part.

 

[Tall Timbers]

It must be easy for a Ukrainian who is Russian, to sneak back in Russia, blend in, and seek payback via fires. Just speculating on my part.

Or Russians who are against the war, and/or maybe whose brother or son(s) have been killed in the war.

 

[6scalearmy]

This could also be a Reichstag fire but at multiple locations.

 

[athenasius]

Are they burning down food processing plants like they are here?

not as far as I've been able to gather. It's to do with the war. Gunpowder factories like in the OP.

And like others said upthread, likely due to Russians who are deeply against the war or ethnic Ukrainians who are beyond angry that Russia invaded and is killing their people.

There are a LOT of Ukrainians living in Russia (just like a lot of Russians live in the Ukraine) as leftovers from the Soviet era.