Explosion damages Russian oil pipeline building near border with Belarus

An explosion in Russia's Pskov region damaged an administrative building of an oil pipeline near the border with Belarus, local governor Mikhail Vedernikov said Saturday (May 27).

An explosion in Russia's Pskov region damaged an administrative building of an oil pipeline near the border with Belarus, local governor Mikhail Vedernikov said Saturday (May 27). 

Vedernikov claimed the building in the Nevelsky District was attacked by two drones.

There were no casualties and emergency services are at the scene, Vedernikov said.

Few other details are available on the incident at this stage, but we will bring you more as we get them.

Elsewhere in Russia Saturday, Ukrainian mortar shelling killed a construction worker near the border with Ukraine.