The War in the Ukraine

This has been reported in various Russian Telegram channels. This video merely summarizes and collates all the videos of the event. Discovery of a huge ammo and weapons cache in Soledar salt mine including NATO and Soviet weapons.


According to the Russian MoD, a number of ammunition depots and troop deployment centers have been struck.


Ukrainian weather currently can be summed up as muddy. Ukrainian ammo truck is stuck in the mud.

Tam said:

Warning this is from Russian state media, and according to Russian MoD. However we are seeing a lot of attacks against reserves, deployment areas and supply routes and this is collaborated and reported in a variety of media.

Huge ammunition train with over 200 tons of supplies were destroyed according to Russian MoD near Kramatorsk. I believe this to be the attack at Pavlograd.

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Skyline is burning at Pavlograd after supply routes is struck.

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Explosion is so bad it blew windows at apartments nearby.

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Kyiv Independent confirms Pavlograd strike.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1652784754490572804

More details about the ammunition destroyed. They included a huge batch of S-300 missiles, good for 16 installations, according to Readovka. If this is true, assuming this is true, thats a large chunk of the remaining air defenses.

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I am inclined to think that S-300s or Buks were hit (without knowing the number).

If you look at the smoke from the explosion you can see a distinctive white colour and many burning fragments in a parabolic trajectory. This is very similar to the videos we have seen of S-300s exploding.

Temstar said:

Rybar is mapping a big breakthrough at Marinka, Russians finally pushing beyond that big avenue that runs through the town

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Marinka has this biggish street separating the Russians from the Ukrainians. There are a few big buildings along the street. Beyond that, there are just small houses. Further, the Russians took the area South of the town. It is hard to imagine if the Russians really wanted to take the town, they couldn't just bombard the hell out of the smaller houses behind the big buildings and take it in a couple of days. Instead, it was months upon months of stalemate. I think the Russians have dug in on the frontline and treated all these areas as kill boxes, keeping the areas in the hands of the Ukrainians and keep killing them with cannons and kill their reinforcements as they travel. It is the best way to kill the army. Traveling troops are exposed and will not fight back. The Russian cannons and logistics are well established. The soldiers operating the cannons are familiar with the area and can quickly hit a particular spot when called upon to do so. Why should the Russians pass up a good thing? It is especially true in today's warfare when troop movements are transparent to both sides. The one side with the firepower advantage needs to fight in an environment that maximize the impact of the firepower advantage.

Tam said:

This has been reported in various Russian Telegram channels. This video merely summarizes and collates all the videos of the event. Discovery of a huge ammo and weapons cache in Soledar salt mine including NATO and Soviet weapons.

According to the Russian MoD, a number of ammunition depots and troop deployment centers have been struck.

Ukrainian weather currently can be summed up as muddy. Ukrainian ammo truck is stuck in the mud.

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Perhaps the reason Ukrainians are fighting so much in places like Bakhmut is they mave had had tons of ammunition and supplies sitting there?.

I mean with the Soledar warehouse that was discovered, it suddenly beomces a lot more strategic target.

phrozenflame said:

Perhaps the reason Ukrainians are fighting so much in places like Bakhmut is they mave had had tons of ammunition and supplies sitting there?.

I mean with the Soledar warehouse that was discovered, it suddenly beomces a lot more strategic target.

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Bakhmut was a major supply route for their defensive line in the Donbass. That is why it was important.

Russia-leaning Twitter accounts reporting extraordinary levels of bomber activity at the moment in addition to sea based missile launches. Sounds like a huge barrage on its way

99PLAAFBalloons said:

Russia-leaning Twitter accounts reporting extraordinary levels of bomber activity at the moment in addition to sea based missile launches. Sounds like a huge barrage on its way

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Indeed, it seems like that dozens of Tu-95 and Tu-160 took off earlier.

Right_People said:

I am inclined to think that S-300s or Buks were hit (without knowing the number).

If you look at the smoke from the explosion you can see a distinctive white colour and many burning fragments in a parabolic trajectory. This is very similar to the videos we have seen of S-300s exploding.

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Here's the explosion video again if you don't like telegram link.

Pro-Ukrainian sources are claiming this is "38 old ballistic missiles (SS-24) with 1,800 tons of rocket fuel. They were stored at the Pavlohrad Chemical Plant. They were not decommissioned due to lack of funds" instead of S-300 missile.

Temstar said:

Pro-Ukrainian sources are claiming this is "38 old ballistic missiles (SS-24) with 1,800 tons of rocket fuel. They were stored at the Pavlohrad Chemical Plant. They were not decommissioned due to lack of funds"

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This is suspicious as it was US that funds the disarmament. While Russia took the remaining nuclear weapons and strategic deliveries including bombers and some hundreds of Kh-55's.

So what's the damages from this massive salvo? Other than the ammo dump I haven't seen much else that was hit. Western SAMs seems to have worked this time.