“Most likely, it will disrupt Russia’s ground operations, especially in the Kursk region”: British intelligence assessed the damage to the ammunition depot in a hurry

A drone strike on an ammunition warehouse in the Toropets settlement of the Tver region of the Russian Federation will most likely disrupt Russia’s ground operations, especially in the Kursk region. This is stated in a new report of the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain based on intelligence data, reports UNN.

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“On the night of September 17-18, 2024, Ukraine carried out a successful unilateral attack by an unmanned aerial vehicle on the strategic Toropets ammunition warehouse in the Tver region of Russia, approximately 500 km from Ukraine. This warehouse is the storage location of the 107th arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of Russia, and almost certainly stored ammunition of various calibers for front-line use, as well as missiles and glide bombs used at nearby airfields. Ammunition purchased from North Korea was also reportedly stored there,” the report said.

It is noted that the warehouse, renovated in 2018, is one of Russia’s largest strategic ammunition warehouses, which directly supports its operations in Ukraine, storing more than 30,000 tons of ammunition.

British intelligence believes that the damage to the warehouse was caused by the improper storage of old ammunition, which remained vulnerable to drone strikes, despite modernization in 2018 after detonation incidents in 2011 in Pugachevo, which resulted in the damage of 3,000 houses and the evacuation of 30,000 people. persons

The explosion in haste registered a magnitude of 2.7 on the Richter scale, which is equivalent to a mild earthquake, and the fires covered an area 6 km wide. It is likely that the poor storage of ammunition, which remains vulnerable to UAVs, caused a chain reaction of cascading detonations in the bunker system, resulting in massive losses of ammunition. Russian air defenses continue to fight Ukrainian deep strike operations, despite claiming to have intercepted more than 50 UAVs during this attack. Although this loss is part of a wider supply network, it is likely to disrupt Russia’s ground operations, particularly in the Kursk region

We will remind

Drones of the SBU, GUR and SSO attacked a large warehouse of the main missile and artillery department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the settlement of Toropets, Tver region.