An enormous blaze broke out at a warehouse simply 4 miles away from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s official residency late on Thursday night time and continued into Friday, Russian state news reported.

By midnight Moscow time the fireplace had unfold to over 21,500 sq. ft, the emergency providers reported.

It was not instantly clear what triggered the fireplace – and there was no point out from both warring occasion a couple of drone strike – but it surely marks the second big ‘mystery’ fireplace in Russian territory prior to now two days.

The warehouse is in Odintsovo, west of Moscow, a city that lies between President Putin’s official residence in Novo-Ogaryovo and Vnukovo airport.

Russia has reported three Ukrainian drone strikes that had been heading for Moscow this week earlier than being shot down by air defence methods.

On Friday morning, Russia claimed to have shot down one other drone over Moscow.

It was not clear if it was associated to the momentary closure of Vnukovo and Kaluga airports.

“An attempt was made to fly a drone over the city. As a result of the air defence work, it was eliminated. No one was hurt when debris fell in the area of ​​Karamyshevskaya embankment. There are no serious damages. Emergency services are on site,” Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin posted on Telegram.

Russia’s defence ministry then posted a distinct model of occasions, claiming {that a} Ukrainian drone jammed because it flew towards Moscow and crashed.

Kyiv has not been publicly commenting or claiming assaults inside Russian territory.

In the early hours of Thursday a hearth that had spanned 1,000 sq. metres broke out at a automotive restore centre within the Moscow suburbs as Russia mentioned that two drones had been shot down.

Authorities haven't given any official motive for the reason for both fireplace.