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Ellipsis

(9,486 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 05:40 PM Apr 2025

Huge 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.


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Huge explosion at Russian Defence Ministry's largest weapons arsenal - Video footage from scene (Original Post) Ellipsis Apr 2025 OP
Yikes!! lamp_shade Apr 2025 #1
Kaboom!!!! The Madcap Apr 2025 #2
Good. Skave Ukraini! electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #3
Another one bites the dust. William769 Apr 2025 #4
That blowed up good! JoseBalow Apr 2025 #5
Holy cow! Our poor environment. nt leftyladyfrommo Apr 2025 #6
Very Nice!! blue-wave Apr 2025 #7
the thing that people watching this DENVERPOPS Apr 2025 #8
Yup. It will be a long time blue-wave Apr 2025 #9
That's a bunch of expensive and increasingly scarce weaponry that will never harm or kill anyone Emrys Apr 2025 #10
Putin/Russia is losing DENVERPOPS Apr 2025 #12
Hope Iamscrewed Apr 2025 #11
kick Ellipsis Apr 2025 #13
They bdamomma Apr 2025 #14

The Madcap

(2,037 posts)
2. Kaboom!!!!
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:30 PM
Apr 2025

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.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
8. the thing that people watching this
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:10 PM
Apr 2025

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)
9. Yup. It will be a long time
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:18 PM
Apr 2025

before the Russians can use anything, if they are able to salvage anything, from this boom-boom.

Emrys

(9,205 posts)
10. That's a bunch of expensive and increasingly scarce weaponry that will never harm or kill anyone
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:21 PM
Apr 2025

- 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)
12. Putin/Russia is losing
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:31 PM
Apr 2025

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.....

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