2024-09-18 18:38:17
Several powerful explosions destroyed a large weapons depot near the city of Toropets, in the Tver region, in the early morning of Wednesday, the twenty-eighth of September. Hit by projectiles fired by the Ukrainian army, Arsenal No. 107 of the Russian army is located 500 kilometers north of the Ukrainian border and stores 240 tons of ammunition. The explosions were so powerful that they were detected by seismic monitoring systems. The first earthquake of about 2.8 was recorded at 3:56 am, followed by seven smaller ones, measuring 2 to 2.8 on the Richter scale.
Numerous videos filmed by residents and Russian soldiers have extensively documented the huge mushroom cloud rising into the air and its aftermath. Russian authorities reported seventeen injured. A video was taken around 8 am by a resident of Torpets (11,000 inhabitants) shows dozens of houses with blown out. A sudden explosion was heard, indicating that several hours after the attack, the situation in the shelter was not under control. Satellite images released by the private American space agency Maxar showed that the forest around the storage area continued to burn for part of a day.
The unexpected measures implemented by the army of Ukraine are undoubtedly not related to the extent of the damage. More than a hundred drones participated in the operation, according to a military source in Kyiv reprise through the information field RBK-Ukraine. In many the videos During the attack, the characteristic whistling of jet engines could be distinctly heard, suggesting that the attack was at least partly by cruise missiles. Until now, attacks deep into Russian territory have been carried out using propeller-driven drones, which are very slow and therefore easy to shoot down by air defense (AA).
“Drone debris falls”
In these two short videos, we hear neither the sound of automatic weapons nor the firing of surface-to-air missiles into the air, which does not mean that the Russian DAA is standing idly by. Testimony received by the Russian media in exile Novayagazeta.eu noticed he had not heard any DAA shots.
Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels Military observer suggests that the Ukrainian projectile is perhaps the new Palianitsya “drone-missile”, of which Volodymyr Zelensky announced a first successful test at the end of March. The Ukrainian specialized site Defense Express leans more towards the Ukrainian Neptune missile (with three times greater explosive charge), in a modernized version.
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