The ammo dump that was targeted by Ukraine in Kherson Oblast near Crimea appears to have been placed at or near the railway station in town. That makes this attack a two-fer, because not only has a large cache of ammunition been destroyed, Rykove is a key junction in the railway line that supplies Crimea.
After the huge ammo dump explosions from last summer Russia quit storing so much ammo in one place. So maybe this cache had just been unloaded and hadn’t been distributed yet. Or maybe they thought it was safe this far from the front lines.
It isn’t known yet what Ukraine used. This town is out of HIMARS range, so Storm Shadow is a likely cause — or partisans could have blown it up.
Or maybe it was the ubiquitous careless Russian smoker.
From the report below:
“this railway artery has been known for a long time, and they have been delivering ammo there for days and months for more than 8 months they actively used this particular station, the territory was usually guarded by "elite" troops, including bearded men [Akhmat] the scale of destruction is maximum, there were a lot of ammo and it detonated for more than 5-6 hours as of now, after the explosions in Lazurny and Rykovo, at least fifty-two '200" single-cell "military" and a very large number of "300" with various types of injuries, limb amputations, etc. are known”
Partyzany is apparently the former name of Rykove.
The aftermath.
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There are numerous reports that Ukraine is close to liberating the town of Robotyne, which is northwest of Tokmak. Even if Ukraine takes the town, it will be tough sledding from there. Russia has a formidable array of defensive lines between there and Tokmak.
The situation in Rivnopil, which is a Russian salient, seems to be that Russia’s grip is slipping. There have been reports of some Russian soldiers fleeing.