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Apparently, Ukrainian drones pushed through and started a chain reaction.

Explosions reportedly continued for hours, and authorities evacuated nearby settlements. Initial reports indicate that the site, previously protected by one of Russia’s densest air defense networks, suffered catastrophic damage.

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Kirzhach is on the far side of Moscow from Ukraine. Did the drones fly over Moscow to reach it, or did they take a longer route?

[–] Tum@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago (12 children)

They may have been launched from within Russia.

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago
[–] eronth@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What, like, percent of stored munitions would this likely be? How impactful of a destruction is it?

[–] Metz@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's hard to find reliable data about that. The last good information is from 2022 and says that Russia has stored around 1 million tons of ammunition. That would mean Ukraine just wiped out 26% of everything Russia had.

However, since it is very likely that Russia has produced a lot more since the war began, it's hard to tell how much they actually lost today.

The only other number I could find was one that says that each day Russia uses around 26000 rounds of ammunition (artillery).

And since I'm a lazy fuck that is already lying in bed and I only have my smartphone here, I'll let AI do the estimates and calculations.

Under the premise that most things in that depot was artillery ammo, and we roughly know the weight of a round and as said how much they use per day we can estimate they burn through 1218 tons of ammunition per day.

That would mean Ukraine just destroyed around 220 days of ammunition.

But as said, that's just a wild guess based on some very vague numbers that I don't have double checked now.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Ukraine themselves reports it at 105ktons of munitions destroyed. And honestly, I trust their remote intel better than russias direct intel on how much it was. Hehe.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wasn't it around 10.000 rounds of artillery at the start of thf full scale invasion and now it's a bit lower like 5-6.000?

[–] Metz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

That may very well be. Ukraine managed to destroy quite a lot depots already, as far as I remember. And Russia had already problems of keeping up either way because of lack of specific resources, I think.

Something along that line. This display is too small and my fingers too fat to actually check that right now.

[–] WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

And his puppet

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

Despite the scale of the incident, Russian officials have offered limited information, with regional governor Aleksandr Avdeev confirming a “blast” but threatening penalties for spreading unofficial reports.

Man, the USA can be a shit show, but at least we can spread unofficial reports whenever we like.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 15 points 1 day ago
[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Grab your favorite bottle of vodka Alexei, we're watching fireworks tonight.

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