02/21/2025

A massive fire broke out at a plastic processing plant in the Kaluga region of the Russian Federation on the night of February 21. In particular, the enterprise is burning near the village of Okorokovo, Zhukovsky district.

This is reported in Russian public forums; the Russian Emergencies Ministry has a brief message about “a fire in the Zhukovsky district at a warehouse for secondary raw materials.” The fire started about two hours ago and is still ongoing.

Local residents say a plastic recycling plant is on fire, with “the flames and a column of smoke visible several kilometers away” from the city of Obninsk. 

The cause of the incident is still unknown. Emergency services are on the scene.

Recall that a powerful fire also raged in Moscow on the evening of February 19. The Lebedev Institute of Computer Engineering, located on Varshavskoye Shosse, burned to ashes – even during the fire, people were saying that “little was left” of the building.

As OBOZ.UA reported,  a massive fire broke out in warehouses in the city of Klin, Moscow Region, at the end of January . A tall column of black smoke rose above the scene of the incident, visible from afar. At that time, the fire covered about 10 thousand square meters. meters.

And around the same time, in the Irkutsk region, a Sunday school at the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker burned down . There, Russians were weaving camouflage nets and collecting aid for the Russian occupiers.