Just a day after destroying an ammo dump in Donetsk stored in the same school building as hundreds of Russian soldiers, Ukraine has destroyed a huge Russian ammo dump near Svatove.
The exact size of the dump isn’t known, but it has been estimated that it has been stocked for two weeks.
The attack was noted by AFU StratCom. See the reply below the top tweet.
DefMon asks who would locate such a huge ammo dump within HIMARS range. In this case the Russians might not have had any choice. If they want to have ammo to use in defending their positions at Svatove, there isn’t really any accessible place to put it that isn’t within HIMARS range.
The big question is why are the Russians storing so much ammo in one place rather than having smaller amounts in multiple locations.
There are photos posted on Twitter that purport to be from the attack but there is some doubt as to whether they are actually from that attack or some other. Haven’t seen any video from the attack either.
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Sometimes the Russians make it easy to find targets to hit.
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The fallout continues from the strike the day before on the school building barracks in Makiivka. Here’s a before-and-after photo.
Gubarev (below) calls the strike “criminal negligence.”
And here’s war criminal Igor Girkin’s take on it. He says the dead are in the hundreds but there is no final count because so many men are still missing.
Naturally, there was blowback to Girkin from a Russian site. See the reply to the tweet below.
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And finally, there is this, because it is important to remember that the people who are fighting and dying in Ukraine have families who love them and grieve for them. Including the Russians.