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UAV Strike Causes 17 Earthquakes In Russia's Toropets

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UAV Strike Causes 17 Earthquakes In Russia's Toropets

The ammunition from the exploded warehouse was sent to Belarus.

After the attack on the ammunition depot in the town of Toropets, Tver region, a mild earthquake with a magnitude of 2.8 was recorded by monitoring services. This is reported by the Volcanodiscovery service.

After that there were 16 more weak shocks with a magnitude of 2 to 2.8 points.

‘Over the past 24 hours, there were 17 earthquakes in Toropets with a magnitude of 2.0 +, the strongest of which was 2.8,’ stated the message.’, - stated in the message.

Ukrainian drone hit the 107th arsenal of the Main missile and artillery Department of the Russian Federation. This is reported by the Ukrainian osOSINT-expert Tatarigam.

‘This warehouse actively supplied various ammunition, in particular 122-mm rockets for BM-21 “Grad”, 82-mm shells and 7.62 between 2022 and 2024,’ stated the report.

‘In a large warehouse in the town of Toropets in Tver region, the Russians were storing missiles for Grad, S-300 and S-400, as well as manufactured ballistic missiles for Iskander and were beginning to build up a stockpile of North Korean KN23s,’ said Oleksandr Kovalenko, head of the Centre for Countering Disinformation.

Monitoring channels also claim that up to 30,000 tonnes of various combat equipment were stored in a warehouse in the town of Toropets. After the attack, the entire ‘town’ of ammunition was destroyed and it is probably the largest destroyed warehouse in the entire war - its size is approximately 7.76 km². Now the attacked depot is still detonating.

These munitions were sent westwards to Belarus by Russian Railways, then across the border back into the Russian Federation and unloaded in Kursk and Belgorod. Their destruction will affect ‘the operational grouping North, which provides support to troops in Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod’.

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