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Ellipsis

(9,284 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 05:40 PM 11 hrs ago

Huge explosion at Russian Defence Ministry's largest weapons arsenal - Video footage from scene

Happened on April 22nd... segue's to a different story around 6:40 minutes in.


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Huge explosion at Russian Defence Ministry's largest weapons arsenal - Video footage from scene (Original Post) Ellipsis 11 hrs ago OP
Yikes!! lamp_shade 10 hrs ago #1
Kaboom!!!! The Madcap 10 hrs ago #2
Good. Skave Ukraini! electric_blue68 10 hrs ago #3
Another one bites the dust. William769 9 hrs ago #4
That blowed up good! JoseBalow 9 hrs ago #5
Holy cow! Our poor environment. nt leftyladyfrommo 9 hrs ago #6
Very Nice!! blue-wave 9 hrs ago #7
the thing that people watching this DENVERPOPS 9 hrs ago #8
Yup. It will be a long time blue-wave 8 hrs ago #9
That's a bunch of expensive and increasingly scarce weaponry that will never harm or kill anyone Emrys 8 hrs ago #10
Putin/Russia is losing DENVERPOPS 8 hrs ago #12
Hope Iamscrewed 8 hrs ago #11
kick Ellipsis 6 hrs ago #13
They bdamomma 6 hrs ago #14

The Madcap

(1,112 posts)
2. Kaboom!!!!
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:30 PM
10 hrs ago

Keep blasting away, Ukraine. Along with Russia's insistence on sending hordes of their own soldiers to certain death, Russia's military will be just a shell of itself in a few more months. Don't give in to TrumpPutin.

DENVERPOPS

(11,839 posts)
8. the thing that people watching this
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:10 PM
9 hrs ago

don't realize is the amount of un-exploded ordinance and shrapnel, that rains down, (literally) all over a five mile radius (or more) of that explosion....
Also, each UN-EXPLODED munition has to be examined by Explosives Ordinance Disposal Specialists before loading or hauled away. Some items are deemed far too dangerous, or in such bad condition, to even touch, and must be exploded where they landed........

blue-wave

(4,626 posts)
9. Yup. It will be a long time
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:18 PM
8 hrs ago

before the Russians can use anything, if they are able to salvage anything, from this boom-boom.

Emrys

(8,585 posts)
10. That's a bunch of expensive and increasingly scarce weaponry that will never harm or kill anyone
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:21 PM
8 hrs ago

- well, some of the secondary explosions might. There are reports of craters some 10 kilometres away from the debris of some of the afterblasts.

The stockpile that was held there has been estimated at around 200,000 tons, and included newly supplied state-of-the-art missiles from North Korea (not the rusty old crap they supplied a while back) and much of the weaponry, like glide bombs, that's been raining down on Ukrainian population centres for many months.

After earlier strikes or "accidents" at large Russian arms stores, the reductions in missile and shell attacks on Ukraine and Ukrainian positions have been significant.

DENVERPOPS

(11,839 posts)
12. Putin/Russia is losing
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:31 PM
8 hrs ago

at this conventional warfare, esp with using strategy, tactics, munitions and systems that are over forty-sixty years old.

So what does an outraged, elderly, megalo-maniacal, Psychopathic, Malignant Narcissist do when they are about to lose????????

We have to believe that the people surrounding Putin, as well as Trump, can keep them from utilizing their footballs. It is my experience with individuals like that, have an "I'LL SHOW YOU" attitude and want to go out with a "BANG"........Sort of a: If I Go, You Go, sort of consolation.....

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