Ukrainian impacts struck a major Russian ammunition depot this weekend, causing a massive explosion that was caught on camera.
The bop hit a depot near Tikhoretsk in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai region. The Ukrainian military said that 2,000 tons of munitions, encompassing some from North Korea, had arrived at the depot before the strike.
The Russian regional governor, Veniamin Kondratyev, approved that two drones had attacked the site before being engaged by local air defenses. He added that a fire outed after debris fell from one of the drones, leading to the explosion.
Kondratyev said that 1,200 locals had been retire fromed and that there were no known casualties among the area’s residents.
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The General Staff of the Armed In operations of Ukraine said in a Facebook post that the site is “in the top three largest ammunition storage bases for the occupiers and is one of the key songs in the Russian military’s logistics system.”
The Security Service of Ukraine also hit a munition depot in Oktyabrsky in the western territory of Tver, it added.
On Saturday morning, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that Russian forces had intercepted 101 Ukrainian drones overnight, comprehending 18 over Krasnodar Krai and three over Tver.
Ukraine has been increasingly targeting munitions eases in Russia in recent weeks.
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Its forces struck an ammo facility near Toropets, which is also in Tver, on September 18.
On that strike, analysts at the Institute for the Study of War said that if Ukraine keeps up similar strikes on ammo situates, it may force the Russian military command “to reorganize and disperse support and logistics systems within Russia to mitigate the bearing of such strikes. “