<P> In 1991 , the brainwashed super-soldier James `` Bucky '' Barnes is dispatched from a Hydra base in Siberia to intercept an automobile carrying a case of super-soldier serum . In the present day , approximately one year after Ultron 's defeat in the nation of Sokovia at the hands of the Avengers , Steve Rogers , Natasha Romanoff , Sam Wilson , and Wanda Maximoff stop Brock Rumlow from stealing a biological weapon from a lab in Lagos . Rumlow blows himself up , hoping to kill Rogers . When Maximoff throws the explosion into the sky with telekinesis , it damages a nearby building , killing several Wakandan humanitarian workers . </P>
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approximately one year after Ultron 's defeat in the nation of Sokovia at the hands of the Avengers