CCTV shows reported drone attack on car in western Russiapublished at 14:35 British Summer Time
14:35 BST
Emma Pengelly and Fridon Kiria
BBC Verify and BBC Monitoring
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Watch: Moment car explodes in Russia’s Belgorod
We’ve been looking at a CCTV recording which shows the moment a car explodes and crashes in the Russian city of Belgorod close to the border with Ukraine.
In the video a white car moves towards a junction, alongside other vehicles, before it explodes and scatters debris across the road. It comes to a stop nearby and two people get out while a third is pulled from the wreckage by passers-by before the vehicle bursts into flames.
The footage was shared by the governor of Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, who said the car had been struck by a Ukrainian drone. Ukraine has not yet commented on the incident and we cannot see from the footage what caused the blast.
We’re confident the CCTV is authentic because we’ve matched features including pedestrian crossings, lampposts, buildings and pavements to street level images on Yandex, the Russian equivalent of the Google search engine. We’ve also looked at other footage showing the aftermath which tallies with the CCTV recording.
Gladkov first posted photos of the scene at 08:14 local time (06:14 BST) and we can see from the length and position of the shadows, with the sun in the east, that the explosion happened in the early morning. Plus the weather, which is clear and dry, is consistent with reports for the Belgorod area this morning.