Public Joint Stock Company Mining and Metallurgical Company Norilsk Nickel announced that fire broke out in the cobalt section of Nickel Electrowinning Shop-2 at the company's Kola Division (Kola MMC). All staff were promptly evacuated from the shop. No one was injured.

The shop operations have been suspended. Fire-fighting units of the Kola MMC and Russia's Emergency Ministry are on site to extinguish the fire. A commission was established to investigate the causes of the incident.

The company is assessing the consequences of the incident and the results will be promptly reported.