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Ukraine destroyed two large ammunition depots in russia.
On the night of September 21, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed two large ammunition depots on the territory of russia at once. This is reported by Ukrainian and russian military publics.
A warehouse near the village of Kamenny in the Tikhoretsk district of the Krasnodar Territory, as well as the 23rd arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the RF in the Tver region, near Toropets, were hit.
In Tikhoretsk, Krasnodar Krai, the governor ordered the evacuation of 1.200 people from the district where ammunition depot was hit - with the usual drones-shot-down-fire-broke-out-by-falling-debris-spreads-to-explosive-objects-tale. Videos with secondary detonations in the Tikhoretsk district are circulating online, as projectiles are flying from the Tikhoretsk arsenal to nearby settlements.
In the Tver region, UAVs hit a "secret object" in the village of Oktyabrsky near Toropets. This was the military unit of the Strategic Missile Forces, a major arsenal that reportedly could have stored about 45.000 tons of ammunition, including ballistic missiles.
Up to 430 servicemen could have been in the 23rd Arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defeat at the time of the shelling, but according to Alexander Nevzorov, the main target of the attack on the arsenal in the Tver region was Iranian Fath-360 missiles and North Korean KN-23 missiles.
Z-media report that local authorities evacuated the Staraya Toropa railway station. Several passenger trains were canceled, and others (Moscow - Pskov and St. Petersburg - Smolensk) were sent on an alternative route with a delay of about two hours.
To top it off the former Wagner PMC base handed over in July 2023 to the MoD is on fire in Molkino, Krasnodar. According to local media, administrative buildings and barracks are burning where the Wagner base was located for almost ten years.
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❗️Traces of radioactive Cesium-137 were detected along Norway’s border with russia - The Barents Observer
Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA) says the amount of Cesium discovered in the air filters is "very low." Bredo Møller with DSA’s Emergency Preparedness unit at Svanhovd is not worried.
"The levels are clearly higher than normal, but pose no risk to humans or the environment," Møller said.
The origin of Cesium-137 is still unknown, according to the DSA. Several nuclear-powered icebreakers and submarines are operating in the Barents Sea. However, Norwegian experts consider it unlikely that the release came from an operating reactor at sea. Another possibility, in their opinion, that it may be linked to the development or testing of the Russian nuclear-powered missile Burevestnik, with the launch site located on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, where the USSR conducted nuclear tests until 1990.
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European Commission Deduces €200 Million Fine from Hungary’s EU Budget Over Asylum Rights Violations
The European Commission has initiated a special procedure to deduct a €200 million fine from Hungary’s share of the EU budget after the country failed to pay the penalty imposed by the European Court of Justice for long-term violations of asylum rights. Hungary missed two deadlines, the first at the end of August and the second on September 17.
The fine will be deducted through the "set-off procedure," which allows the Commission to withhold payments earmarked for Hungary from the EU budget, including €21 billion in frozen cohesion and recovery funds due to Hungary's weakening rule of law. A European Commission representative stated that the process will take time, as they must determine which payments can cover the fine.
Hungary is also facing a €1 million daily fine for continuing to defy the European Court’s ruling, which deemed the country’s asylum restrictions "an unprecedented and extremely serious violation of EU law."
In response to these sanctions, Hungary’s government, led by Viktor Orbán, has threatened to "voluntarily" transport migrants to Belgium and has expanded programs allowing Russian and Belarusian citizens to enter Hungary despite EU restrictions.
Panic at Gazprom
The Sudzha gas metering station, captured by Ukrainian troops, is not working properly, reports oil and gas analyst Mikhail Krutikhin: there is no electricity, the batteries that were supposed to support the station are dead, and there is no technical staff. Gazprom cannot control the pumping of gas towards Europe.
Gazprom is offering Ukraine to move the gas delivery point 300 km into Russian territory, to the Dolgoe station, but Ukraine is not agreeing. "And what will Gazprom do if Dolgoe ends up in Ukrainian hands?" - "We will have to move the gas delivery point to Urengoy," Gazprom employees bitterly joke in response.
How many other "GRAU" arsenals are there in Russia, like the one that was blown up in Toropka?
The 107 GRAU arsenal in Toropka is one of the 7 large weapons bases in the European part of Russia. Analysts talk about 6 others.
📌 23rd arsenal of GRAU
It is located only 16 km south of the already destroyed 107th arsenal near the city of Toropets. This warehouse is about half the size of the already destroyed one. What kind of ammunition is stored on it is questionable.
But the fact that the Ukrainian special services hit the 107th shows its priority over the 23rd.
📌 13th arsenal of GRAU
Further north in the Novgorod region near the village of Kotovo. It is about 680 km from the border with Ukraine, that is, about 200 km further than Toropets. This warehouse has a total area of about 3 square km.
📌 51st arsenal of GRAU
It is located east of Moscow near the city of Kirzhach in the Vladimir region, so it can be a difficult target due to the density of air defense equipment.
This is a rather large warehouse with a total area of about 3.5 square kilometers. The border with Ukraine is about 530 km.
📌 73rd arsenal of GRAU
In the Vladimir region, next to the villages of Ivanovo, Krutovo and Eseno, which can be considered the largest, because it occupies an area of about 7 square meters. km
It also underwent repair and modernization between 2018 and 2021, just like the 107th arsenal. This may indicate that it stores not only a lot of ammunition, but also quite expensive products. It is located 650 kilometers from the border.
📌 67th arsenal of GRAU
But it can be considered one of the closest, located near the city of Karachev, Bryansk region - 114 km.
It is located close to a population of 20,000. At the same time, as of 2021, detailed satellite images show that part of the ammunition in this warehouse with a total area of about 3.5 square km were stored in the open air.
📌 68th arsenal of GRAU
The 68th GRAU arsenal near the city of Mozdok in North Ossetia is the most distant, about 700 km from the front line. This is another updated warehouse with an area of 2.2 square km
🔥The orcs will not sleep well tonight - the largest mattress warehouse in Russia burned down in the Moscow region
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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