Huge explosions as Russia destroys military facilities holding dozens of tons of munitions in at least two locations in Ukraine

Top War
Sat, 13 May 2023 18:51 UTC

Footage taken by local residents confirms the destruction of a military facility with dozens of tons of ammunition near Khmelnytsky

Despite the fact that the SBU threatens with harsh measures all those Ukrainians who publish footage of arrivals or the consequences of arrivals at military facilities, such photos and videos still appear in Ukrainian public pages and on social media pages. In the afternoon, new evidence emerged of the consequences of the defeat of one of the enemy targets near Khmelnitsky.

Initially, it was reported that a kamikaze drone of the RF Armed Forces hit a fuel storage facility, but then evidence of a powerful detonation at the facility began to be published.

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The detonation, which lasted several minutes, as well as the comments of local residents filming the explosions near Khmelnytsky from a distance, indicate that a large ammunition depot and a storage place for military equipment with a storage of fuel and lubricants for it were hit.

The comment of the one who recorded the explosions at the facility in Khmelnytsky on a mobile phone camera says that a few seconds after the start of burning, fragments began to scatter.

The height of the column of smoke and fire was several hundred meters.

It is known that the object, which was struck this morning, was completely destroyed. Together with him, the unit of the National Guard of Ukraine, which was engaged in the protection of the object, ceased to exist.

It was from the scattering of fragments and the blast wave that followed from the rupture of several tens of tons of ammunition that damage was recorded in the private sector. Recall that Ukrainian propaganda initially tried to pass off the damage in Khmelnitsky as a Russian strike on "civilian objects".

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A new series of strikes with "ended missiles": explosions at a facility in Ternopil, air raids in Lvov and Ivano-Frankivsk

With the onset of darkness in a number of regions controlled by the Kyiv regime, an air alert was again announced.

After today's attack on a military facility in Khmelnitsky, where the explosions were so strong that the detonation was felt several kilometers from the epicenter for several minutes, Ukrainian military experts began to say that the activity of Russian intelligence had increased significantly. One of the Ukrainian military bloggers, commenting on the destruction of large ammunition depots in Pavlograd as a result of Russian strikes a few weeks ago and in Khmelnytsky today, called on the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to "stop putting your eggs in one basket." Another Ukrainian expert announced the destruction by Russian troops in one flight drone in the Khmelnitsky region of material assets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the amount of at least a quarter of a billion dollars.

At the moment, new attacks on military installations in the western regions of Ukraine are reported. So, there is information about arrivals in Ternopil. Explosions are thundering on the territory of one of the industrial facilities, to the warehouses of which, apparently, a batch of weapons from the Rzeszow logistics hub in Poland has recently been delivered.

The Ukrainian side claims that Caliber cruise missiles are flying at the facility in Ternopil, as well as over the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.

The Russian side has not yet commented on these statements.

The head of the Ternopil Regional Military Administration urges residents of the city to "stay in shelters."

It also became known that Russian troops dealt a powerful blow to one of the enemy's military facilities in Kherson. The concentration of the so-called "offensive guard" has recently been growing there. There is a high probability that in Kherson the arrivals occurred precisely at the location of this "guard".

Recall that earlier the Kiev regime claimed that Russia "ran out of missiles."

As noted above, in recent weeks Russia has taken out a number of significant munition storage sites of Ukraine's (albeit paid for by Western taxpayers): Videos show huge explosion as Russia hits Ukraine's 'counteroffensive munitions depot'