The apparently successful drone attack comes as Ukraine is pushing its Western allies to lift restrictions on the missiles they have supplied for more such attacks on Russia. Ukrainian drones attacked overnight a weapons depot filled with missiles some 300 miles inside Russia, releasing a massive fireball into the nighttime sky — the latest strike on Russian military targets by Ukrainian forces using their own weapons. An official from Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, said Wednesday that military intelligence and special forces carried out the attack, which “literally wiped off the face of the Earth” the ammunition warehouse. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. The base housed Iskander tactical missiles, Tochka-U missile systems, antiaircraft missiles, artillery ammunition and glide bombs, the official said — among the weapons that have pummeled Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure for much of the year. North Korean KN-23 ballistic missiles were also located at the storage facility, said a Ukrainian Defense Ministry official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity. He added that the attack involved “more than 100 drones.” Verified videos on social media showed extensive fires and explosions at the ammunition storage facility in Toropets in Russia’s Tver region, some 250 miles west of Moscow. Satellite images showed extensive fires over what appeared to be a complex of bunkers in the town. NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System also showed the whole complex affected by fire on Wednesday morning.
via wp: Ukrainian drones hit missile warehouse deep in Russia in massive blast
siehe auch: Russian Ammo Depot 1.8 Kiloton Blast May Be ‘Biggest Single Event’ in War. Asuspected Ukrainian drone attack at an ammunition depot in Russia’s Tver region has been described on social media as possibly the biggest event of the war started by Vladimir Putin. Unverified images on social media show a huge ball of flame following the strike on the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) arsenal in Toropets, about 240 miles west of Moscow, at about 3.30 a.m. Wednesday. Footage shows numerous subsequent detonations. Ukrainian internal affairs advisor Anton Gerashchenko posted on X that there were reports the explosion was the equivalent of between 1.3 and 1.8 kilotons of TNT, with a blast wave spreading up to 200 miles. Another estimate by George William Herbert of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California, was that the blast was consistent with 200-240 tons of high explosives detonating, Reuters reported.