Residents of Klintsy, a town of around 60,000 people, were cited by RBC Ukraine as saying that they heard loud explosions that shook their homes. Klintsy is located some 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
“Houses jumped,” a local resident said.
The Telegram channel Novosti Bryansk said that it spoke to residents who said that the explosions were “so powerful that they woke up the whole city.”
RBC said several local residents in Klintsy suggested that an explosion occurred at a military unit.
Russian pro-Kremlin news outlet Kommersant said that “military unit No. 12721” is located in Klintsy.
Telegram channel Readovka also reported explosions in the village of Klimovo in the Bryansk region, which houses a military airfield and unit, and is located 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
Alexander Bogomaz, governor of the Bryansk region, said in a statement on Tuesday that Klintsy was shelled overnight by Ukraine.
He said there were no casualties or damage, and claimed that a missile was shot down.
“As a result of the work of the air defense systems of the Russian Armed Forces, the missile was destroyed, some parts hit the territory of an industrial zone,” the governor said on Telegram.
Footage circulating on social media however purportedly shows the damage caused by an overnight missile strike.
“Here, consequences of the night arrival,” a woman can be heard saying in the clip that was shared by Twitter user Dmitri, who is with WarTranslated, an independent project that translates material about the war into English.
“Shrapnel flew all the way there,” the woman said, panning the camera across a field with several military vehicles. A large hole in the ground is visible.
“This is the pit, the crater, here some vehicle tuned over, don’t know if [it’s] a tank or not. And our canteen is not that far. This is the barracks that was damaged,” she said.
Newsweek was not able to immediately verify when or where the clip was filmed.
Last week, explosions were reported in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and in Belgorod, near Russia’s border with Ukraine.
Newsweek reached out to Russia’s foreign ministry for comment.
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