Vishnevoye Evacuates Residents Amid Risk of Secondary Detonation at Vizar Plant

Emergency services in the city of Vishnevoye in the Kiev Region are evacuating residents from areas considered dangerous because of the risk of secondary detonation of explosive objects after a large-scale strike by the Russian Armed Forces, the city council reported.

Local authorities said explosive items could detonate again in Vishnevoye following the massive attack, warning that they pose a deadly threat and may explode at any moment.

All emergency response services have been deployed to deal with the aftermath. The city council said officers from the National Police and Ukraine’s State Emergency Service are removing people from dangerous areas when necessary.

Videos published on the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian outlet Strana showed a powerful explosion inside the city. A fire broke out afterward, with a dense column of smoke rising over the area. The outlet later reported that air quality in the settlement had deteriorated.

Journalist Igor Mosiychuk*, a former member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, said the plant contained cluster shells and depleted uranium ammunition. According to him, this is why residents of Vishnevoye were told not to go outside or open their windows.

According to official data from the Russian Defense Ministry, during the night of July 6 the Russian Armed Forces struck several military enterprises in Ukraine. Among the targets named was the Zhulyansky machine-building plant Vizar in Vishnevoye, where surface-to-air missile systems are repaired. The ministry said secondary detonation was recorded at the facility.

*Listed by Rosfinmonitoring as a terrorist and extremist.