On the evening of the 18th, the Ukrainian Defense Forces attacked a large warehouse with ammunition and missiles near Toroptsia Tverskaya region of Russia. The remnants of the attack of the Ukrainian army could be seen from space.
What is known about the attack on the Russian army warehouse near the Tver region – from the material of RBC-Ukraine below.
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- Attack details
- What do you know about the attack on the warehouse
- Legacies from space
Details of the attack
This night at the edge announced about the vibrations near the Tver region. The Russians immediately announced a drone attack on the population of Toropets.
The Governor of the Tver region Igor Rudenya in a Telegram stated that the fire had burned down after the fall of the downed drones. He also reported about the “partial evacuation of the population from the territory, where the PPO robot is localized later.”
Based on the published footage, it immediately became clear that there was a fire that was accompanied by heavy smoke and detonation.
Russian Telegram channels reported earlier that there were attacks on the 107th GRAU arsenal (the main missile Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation ), where artillery ammunition and missiles were saved.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirms that 54 drones have been lost in just one day, But many Russians couldn’t find anything about the work of PPO in the Tver region.
As reported by RBC-Ukraine, the attack on the warehouse was a special operation of Ukrainian security forces, from which the SBU, GUR and SSO took part. It was confirmed that after the attack, having sunk the warehouse of the Missile and Artillery Directorate, the Russians saved missiles for the Iskander operational-tactical systems, KN23 ballistic missiles, missiles for the Tochka-U tactical missile systems, KABI, S-300 and artillery ki ammunition.< /p>
According to the data from the dzherel, more than a hundred attack drones were involved. Get close to the Ukrainian cordon until the target is about 500 km.
What we know about the attack on the warehouse
Varto note that the place of Toropets is located 263 km away from Tver and the regional center. In 2015, about 12 thousand people lived there.
Toroptsia has a military unit 54169 and a military unit 11777 (55443) – 107 arsenal of the GRAU (the main missile and artillery department of the Ministry of Defense) harrows of the Russian Federation).
In 2015, Russian powers wrote about the fact that in Toropets there will be an arsenal for storing missiles and other ammunition, and in 2018 this was confirmed by the local ZMI.
Heritage from space
NASA satellites recorded thermal readings in the warehouse Tver region of Russia after the attack. Monitoring groups paid attention and published satellite images.
They can show the great scale of the fire on the entire territory of the 107th GRAU arsenal.
NASA satellite image (t.me/astrapress)
In addition, the scale of the detonation is also confirmed by OSINT analytics. The plume of smoke after the strike on the warehouse was recorded by satellites.
Similarly, after the attack near the Tver region of Russia there were a dozen small earthquakes. The first earthquake was recorded at 03:56 Kyiv time. Its magnitude was 2.8. After this, over several years, another 16 earthquakes with a magnitude of 0.5 to 2.8 were observed.
During the preparation of the material, the following sources were used: Telegram channels Astra, Baza, Shot, publications Wi kipedia, povidomlennya dzherel RBC-Ukraine, OSINTtechnical publications.
It is obvious that on the evening of the 18th of May, Russia also has a huge warehouse of felting materials. This happened in Yaroslavl, the reasons for the fire are not known to Russians.
The fire was of great proportions, it burned for several kilometers.
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