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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHuge explosion at Russian Defence Ministry's largest weapons arsenal - Video footage from scene
Happened on April 22nd... segue's to a different story around 6:40 minutes in.
lamp_shade
(15,522 posts)The Madcap
(2,037 posts)Keep blasting away, Ukraine. Along with Russia's insistence on sending hordes of their own soldiers to certain death, Russia's military will be just a shell of itself in a few more months. Don't give in to TrumpPutin.
electric_blue68
(27,326 posts)William769
(59,147 posts)JoseBalow
(9,742 posts)
leftyladyfrommo
(20,027 posts)blue-wave
(5,553 posts)Slava Ukraini!! Heroyam Slava!!
Slava Na Viki!!
Woo!! Hoo!!
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)don't realize is the amount of un-exploded ordinance and shrapnel, that rains down, (literally) all over a five mile radius (or more) of that explosion....
Also, each UN-EXPLODED munition has to be examined by Explosives Ordinance Disposal Specialists before loading or hauled away. Some items are deemed far too dangerous, or in such bad condition, to even touch, and must be exploded where they landed........
blue-wave
(5,553 posts)before the Russians can use anything, if they are able to salvage anything, from this boom-boom.
Emrys
(9,205 posts)- well, some of the secondary explosions might. There are reports of craters some 10 kilometres away from the debris of some of the afterblasts.
The stockpile that was held there has been estimated at around 200,000 tons, and included newly supplied state-of-the-art missiles from North Korea (not the rusty old crap they supplied a while back) and much of the weaponry, like glide bombs, that's been raining down on Ukrainian population centres for many months.
After earlier strikes or "accidents" at large Russian arms stores, the reductions in missile and shell attacks on Ukraine and Ukrainian positions have been significant.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)at this conventional warfare, esp with using strategy, tactics, munitions and systems that are over forty-sixty years old.
So what does an outraged, elderly, megalo-maniacal, Psychopathic, Malignant Narcissist do when they are about to lose????????
We have to believe that the people surrounding Putin, as well as Trump, can keep them from utilizing their footballs. It is my experience with individuals like that, have an "I'LL SHOW YOU" attitude and want to go out with a "BANG"........Sort of a: If I Go, You Go, sort of consolation.....
Iamscrewed
(486 posts)Hope it was an inside job. More please.
Ellipsis
(9,486 posts)bdamomma
(69,629 posts)deserved that.
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