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Ukraine has attacked a major ammunition depot in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai region.
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A video of the strike circulated on social media, showing a huge explosion at the site.
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Russia’s regional governor confirmed the attack and said 1,200 people had been evacuated.
Ukrainian forces attacked a large Russian ammunition depot over the weekend, causing a massive explosion that was caught on camera.
The attack hit a depot near Tikhoretsk in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai region. The Ukrainian military said 2,000 tons of ammunition, including some from North Korea, had arrived at the depot before the attack.
BREAKING: Several large Russian arms depots were destroyed by Ukrainian drone strikes just hours ago. This video shows the arms depot exploding with North Korean artillery shells in Tikhoretsk, Krasnodar region, almost 500 km from the front lines. photo.twitter.com/Kzsdsua7iT
— Visegrad 24 (@visegrad24) September 21, 2024
Russian regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev confirmed that two drones had attacked the site before being attacked by local air defenses. He added that the fire started after debris fell from one of the drones.
Kondratyev said 1,200 residents had been evacuated and that there were no known casualties among residents of the area.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a Facebook post that the site “is among the three largest ammunition storage sites for the occupiers and is one of the most important in the logistics system of the Russian army.”
The Security Service of Ukraine also attacked an ammunition depot in Oktyabrsky in the western Tver region, the organization said.
On Saturday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Russian forces had intercepted 101 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 18 over the Krasnodar region and three over Tver.
Ukraine has increasingly targeted munitions storage sites in Russia in recent weeks.
On September 18, the troops attacked an ammunition depot near Toropets, also in Tver.
After that attack, analysts at the Institute for the Study of War said that similar attacks on such locations “could force the Russian military leadership to make a similar decision point to reorganize and disperse support and logistics systems within Russia to limit the impact of such attacks.”
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