RUSSIA/UKRAINE WAR: Multiple Explosion at Power supplying defence facilities in Russia’s Yekaterinburg – watch video

An explosion occurred on the night of 1-2 March at the Kalininskaya power substation, which supplies power to three defence facilities, in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

TASS, a pro-Kremlin Russian news outletm Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee; Telegram channel Mash

Details: The substation supplies energy to three defence facilities: the Kalinin Machine-Building Plant, Turbine Motor Plant and Uralmash.

Russian media claim that a short circuit could cause the explosion.

Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee also stated it was a “malfunction of electrical equipment accompanied by a bang.”

Mash reported that an improvised explosive device was triggered. The detonation occurred on a timer.