A Ukrainian kamikaze drone attack has reportedly hit Vladimir Putin’s Satan-2 nuclear missile, causing an apocalyptic explosion early yesterday morning.
Yesterday it was reported that a secret ammunition depot in Toropets in the Tver region, where one of the Russian president’s nuclear missiles was located, was hit by a Ukrainian drone.
It is said to have taken place just 10 miles (16 kilometers) from an “indestructible” storage facility for 30,000 tons of munitions that was destroyed on Wednesday.
When the ‘Satan-2’ rocket was hit, there was a huge explosion. The local population panicked, fearing a detonation at the last moment.
The claim that the rocket had been destroyed came from a Russian Telegram channel. A news blackout amplified the rumors.
Apocalyptic explosions ripped through two massive Russian missile and ammunition storage sites early this morning
Vladimir Putin’s RS-28 Sarmat ‘Satan-2’ missile was reportedly hit by Ukrainian drone strike, causing a huge explosion
It was also claimed that another site housing North Korean missiles supplied to Putin by Kim Jong Un was also hit.
Mushroom clouds and exploding shells lit up the night sky above this facility in the Russian city of Tikhoretsk in the Krasnodar region during a devastating targeted attack by Ukrainian kamikaze drones.
An unconfirmed report indicates that hundreds of Russian troops are stationed at the 23rd GRAU arsenal in the village of Oktyabrsky in the Tver region.
Whether this is the case is unknown, but the Russians feared casualties at the exploded weapons storage sites.
NASA satellite images showed that fires were still raging in the Tver region, that there were disruptions on a major railway line and that the Staraya Toropa station had to be evacuated.
“The number of fires is increasing every minute,” the Crimean Wind Telegram channel reported.
Mushroom clouds and exploding shells lit up the night sky at a facility in the Krasnodar region
A secret ammunition depot in Toropets in the Tver region, where one of the Russian president’s nuclear missiles (pictured) was stored, was hit by a Ukrainian drone yesterday.
Russia claimed it shot down 101 kamikaze drones from Ukraine in one night using air defenses.
The three hits in as many days were a major blow to the Russian war effort.
Russian sources maintain their usual position that the impacts that led to towering fireballs came from debris from downed drones, while most experts – including pro-war analysts in Moscow – suspect direct hits.
Russian officials rarely disclose the full extent of the damage caused by the Ukrainian attacks.
Veniamin Kondratyev, governor of the Krasnodar region, wrote on his official Telegram channel that Tikhoretsk “was the target of a terrorist attack by the Kiev regime.
The detonation site is believed to be a base of military unit 57229-41.
It was also claimed that another site, said to house North Korean missiles supplied to Putin by Kim Jong Un, was hit.
The three hits in as many days are a heavy blow to the Russian war effort
‘Two drones were knocked out by air defense and electronic warfare forces.
‘Due to the fall of debris from one of them, a fire broke out, which spread to explosive objects. The detonation started.
‘For safety reasons, residents of the village near the fire are temporarily evacuated to nearby settlements.’
Western intelligence agencies had determined that the Tikhoretsk missile and munitions complex was at the end of a 9,600-kilometer (6,000-mile) route across Siberia from North Korea, along which mountains of munitions were transported that Kim had sent to support Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
This is where North Korean firepower was stored before being sent to the front.
The supplies from Pyongyang include deadly KN-23 rockets and 122mm and 152mm artillery shells.
Western intelligence services had already calculated that the destruction of the first Toropets storage site earlier this week would have major consequences for Russia.
Blowing up two more arsenals today – 1,000 miles apart – will have serious consequences for dictator Putin.
The pro-war channel Military Informant expressed concern about the number of Ukrainian attacks on ammunition storage sites and the reasons given by officials.
“Tikhoretsk is far from the first munitions arsenal to be hit recently, and one might wonder whether the statements about falling debris from crashed drones play a role in this,” the channel said.
‘The question is whether these are just statements made for the benefit of a population that is treated like idiots.
‘It is another question whether this is also reflected in the reports that go to the top: we do not need additional air defense systems, we shot down everything, only falling debris, force majeure.’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint press conference with the President of the European Commission in Kiev, September 20
A video clip from handout footage released by Russian authorities from Russia’s southwestern Krasnodar region shows volunteers helping evacuees from an area attacked by a Ukrainian drone on September 21.
Evacuees rest at an emergency shelter after their evacuation from an area attacked by a Ukrainian drone on September 21.
Colonel Ants Kiviselg, head of the Estonian Armed Forces Intelligence Centre, estimated this week that Russia had lost “two to three months’ worth of ammunition” in the initial attack in the Tver region.
About 30,000 tons of explosives were detonated, equivalent to 750,000 shells.
‘As a result of this attack, Russia has suffered ammunition losses and we will feel the consequences of this on the front in the coming weeks.’
In Ukraine, a 12-year-old boy and two women aged 75 and 79 were killed in a Russian attack in Kryvyi Rih.
As Ukraine has ramped up domestic production of drones over the past two years, attacks on Russian territory have also increased.
The largest drone attack ever in Ukraine hit the Russian capital in September, killing at least one person, destroying homes and paralyzing air traffic at Moscow airports.
