The Russian peacekeepers are only part of the peacekeeping force, my impression is representing something like 40% of the total # of 1100 or 1200. Ukrainian forces hit another Russian ammunition depot on Monday, producing another massive explosion. Seen the video, and old style big ammo dump went up in flames. This screen grab shows what Ukraine's Armed Forces say is the destruction of a Russian arms depot in eastern Ukraine. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) The Ukrainian military on Tuesday reported destroying a Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine, resulting in a massive explosion captured on social media, while rescuers said the death toll from a weekend Russian strike in the countrys east grew to 45. Ukraines interdiction of Russias supply lines after all doomed the Russian armys attempt to encircle Kyiv back in February and March. Follow the APs coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine, FILE - Ukrainian soldiers run after a missile strike hit a residential area, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Those strikes have mainly focused on the south, in areas around the city of Kherson and across occupied Crimea. It's not easy, but it's doable.'. Some of the ingredients in fertilizer can be used for ammunition. 'So we have to find a way to beat them under these conditions. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that between February 24 and July 13, Russia had lost about 37,570 personnel, 1,649 tanks, 3,832 armored combat vehicles, 839 artillery units, 247 multiple launch rocket systems, 109 air defense systems, 217 warplanes, 188 helicopters, 678 drones, 155 cruise missiles, 15 warships, 2,704 motor vehicles and fuel tankers, and 67 units of special equipment. Russia is also aiming to hold territory it has captured in southern Ukraine, after a break-out from Crimea early in the war captured swathes of land - including the cities of Kherson, Melitopol, and Berdyansk. Four more ex-American HIMARS are on the way. Putin and other officials have said Russia sent troops into Ukraine as effectively a protective measure against the encroaching West. Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said: "Morning near Dzhankoi began with explosions. Explosion reported at factory with Russian ammo in Luhansk Oblast. Elsewhere in Ukraine, Russian shelling over the past 24 hours killed at least 16 civilians and wounded 48 more, Ukraines presidential office said in its Tuesday morning update. But the Russians have fired so many hundreds of their best missiles that theyre now running low. Nine civilians were killed and two more wounded in Donetsk province, which makes up half of the Donbas. Cutting rail lines and destroying ammo dumps near the front forces Putin's commanders to rely on long-distance truck convoys to move ammo around, hampering its ability to fight. The video was posted on the Facebook page of Ukraine's Armed Forces, which said, "how one of the ammunition depots of the Russian occupiers in eastern Ukraine exploded," according to a translation of the message which did not specify the location. Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War say Putin's 'exhausted' forces are now struggling to make any ground and believe his invasion will soon ground to a halt. An increased number of foreign ships are now able to reach Ukrainian ports to help export grain. Last week, the governor of the Donetsk oblast Pavlo Kyrylenko urged the province's more than 350,000 remaining residents to flee to safer towns further West, saying that evacuating the region was necessary to save lives and allow the Ukrainian army to better defend towns against a Russian advance. It said workers found more bodies and also rescued nine people as they dug through the rubble of the five-story building in Chasiv Yar throughout the day. It has led to speculation over how the dump could have been struck, given it is out of range of Western-supplied rocket launcher vehicles. RUSSIA has lost another ammo supply dump in the east of Ukraine amid a string of successful missile strikes by Ukrainian forces. While Ukrainian forces have used HIMARS systems to target Russian ammunition depots and other high-value targets, the U.S. has asked for assurances from the Ukrainians that they wont use the long-range rocket systems to strike targets inside of Russia. Massive explosions rocked a military depot in the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine on Tuesday, igniting fires and forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 people. The Russian army burns down everything in its way. By Pyotr Ilyichyov, head of the ministrys department for international organizations, told Russian news agency Interfax that representatives of Ukraine, as well as U.N. (officials) in the role of observers are also expected to take part in the talks. Plumes of smoke rose into the sky after reportedly a Russian ammunition warehouse exploded in Western Ukraine. A RUSSIAN ammunition depot has exploded in what is suspected to be another strike by Ukraine across the border as they push back against Vladimir Putin. Forty-four miles is the official max range, but with careful planning its possible to squeeze an extra six miles from the rockets. Conclusion This video is from September 2017 when Russia allegedly bombed one of Ukraine's army warehouses where 188,000 tons of ammunition were stored. window._taboola = window._taboola || [];_taboola.push({mode: thumbnails-mid-article,container: taboola-mid-article-thumbnails,placement: Mid Article Thumbnails,target_type: mix}); Zenger News obtained the footage from the 40th Separate Artillery Brigade an artillery formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces on July 12. Ukrainian HIMARS target a Russian ammo dump in, have concentrated their ammo strikes in the east. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Putin's defence minister Sergei Shoigu is also believed to be in a bunker near Ufa in the Urals, 725 miles east of Moscow, according to investigative journalist Christo Grozev. Ukrainian military. Witnesses said that after an initial loud explosion, bright flashes were visible in the night sky. These have been blamed on Ukrainian saboteurs working behind Russian lines, because they are out of range of Kyiv's missile forces. By Tim McNulty. A senior Ukrainian source was quoted in the New York Times as saying an "elite military unit" was behind Tuesday's attack. Germany and the Czech Republic have signed a joint declaration, vowing to overcome their dependency on Russian fossil fuels and to speed up the transition to low-carbon energy. The British military said Tuesday that Russia was continuing to make small, incremental gains in Donetsk, where heavy fighting led the provinces governor last week to urge its 350,000 remaining residents to move to safer places in western Ukraine. The defense official who announced the new $400 million weapons transfer, said Russian forces are making very incremental, limited, hard-fought, highly costly progress.. He did not provide any further details. This blog is for preview purposes only and all music downloaded should be deleted within 24 hours. Ammunition cooks off and flys haphazardly away from the blast as ordinary people drive past and record with their phones. Some 1,200 Ukrainian firefighters were working to contain the blaze, UNIAN reported. Social media posts said that the explosion took place in Popasna in the Luhansk region. BREAKING: Massive explosion near Kharkiv, Ukraine, possibly involving ammunition depot pic.twitter.com/sIX1O0YRnF BNO News (@BNONews) March 1, 2022 (SocialLY brings you all the latest breaking news, viral trends and information from social media world, including Twitter, Instagram and Youtube. "On a daily basis, the occupiers are shelling with heavy caliber the de-occupied settlements, where civilians still remain," the governors statement reads. Additionally, the head of the regional military administration noted that the Russians have a lot of kamikaze drones. Reznikov has said that Western weaponry needs to be delivered to Ukraine faster. Numerous social media users speculated that the strike on the suspected ammunition depot this week was carried out by M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) rockets donated to Ukraine by the U.S. in recent weeks. Turkish authorities have detained a Russian cargo ship carrying grain allegedly stolen from Ukraine. 'The Russian military has shown a continual inability to translate small tactical gains into operational successes, a failing that will likely prevent Russia from making significant territorial advances in the coming months barring major changes.'. gtag(js, new Date()); Andrei Marotchko, a spokesperson for the pro-Russian separatist forces, told Tass that "the Luhansk popular militia and Russian forces occupied the last strategic heights" and this meant that the city, which has resisted Moscow's bombardment for weeks, is "completely encircled.". Sergei Aksyonov, Russia's top official in the illegally-annexed Crimean peninsula, claimed on Wednesday that Russian FSB security forces have "neutralized" an Islamist terrorist cell. Ukrainian ground forces reportedly destroyed two Russian artillery pieces and an ammo dump in a series of increasingly spectacular explosions. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) The Ukrainian military on Tuesday reported destroying a Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine, resulting in a massive explosion captured on social media, while rescuers said the death toll from a weekend Russian strike in the country's east grew to 45. We only index and link to content provided on other servers. In northeaster Kharkiv, Ukraines second-largest city, and its surrounding region, Russian strikes hit residential buildings, killing four civilians and wounding nine, Ukrainian officials said. Traveling along roads and firing mostly at night, the four HIMARS are having an effect thats entirely out of proportion to their small numbers. Monday's blasts took place hundreds of miles to the east, in Donetsk, where heavy fighting was reported along the frontline at the weekend. He said there was no word yet on any casualties. The countries identified to be allowed in facilitating these guarantees are Israel and NATO members Canada, Poland and Turkey. 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The MLRS are somewhat less nimble and reliable than the HIMARS are, but their rockets are the sameand travel just as far and strike just as accurately. The police are not disclosing why they are looking for anyone, but it does look like it's related to the drone attack, since the person in question happens . By William McGee July 14, 2022 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Ukrainian soldiers destroyed two Russian artillery systems Nona-K and Russian military equipment in Ukraine. [4] Unlike most other modern militaries, Russia is heavily reliant on trains to supply the large amounts of ammunition its forces use to bulldoze through enemy lines so its troops can capture the ruins left behind. 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On July 8, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiys chief of staff Andriy Yermak tweeted, [Ukrainian forces] need more heavy weapons to repel [Russian Federation: RF] aggression. With a sufficient number of howitzers, SPG and HIMARS, our soldiers are able to stop and drive the invaders from our land. Former Rep. Liz Cheney is about to become a professor at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. More details about the location of the strike were revealed when the clip was shared on Twitter accounts. Russian and Turkish military representatives plan to meet in Istanbul on Wednesday to discuss the transport of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said. Russian state media reports that Ukraine shelling struck the arsenal causing it to explode.. A huge blast was filmed in the city of Belgorod, close to the border and some reports indicate the Ukraine military may have struck the Russian arsenal. It admitted "sabotage" was to blame for a military warehouse getting damaged, while Russian state news agency Tass said civilian facilities "including power lines, a power plant, railway tracks, and a number of residential buildings were damaged too". It is just the latest arms depot to go up in flames after blasts at bases across occupied Crimea that Ukraine says has badly-damaged Russia's ability to fight. A huge crater gaped precisely where a large warehouse-like structure once stood. The latest official toll came on March 25 when Moscow said 1,351 soldiers and officers had died. Movements of planes used by top Kremlin officials show that Putin could be spending some or all of his time at the hideaway near Surgut in western Siberia, it is claimed. Videos captured on the eastern outskirts of the city of Donetsk showed smoke and flames engulfing a set of badly-damaged buildings as the sun came up Monday, with multiple blasts caught on camera. Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Ukrainian Forces Wipe Out Russian Ammo Dump In Spectacular Explosion Zenger News obtained the footage from the 40th Separate Artillery Brigade on July 12. Ukraine's military has shared a video it says shows the destruction of a Russian ammunition warehouse in Svatove, a strategic hub in the eastern Luhansk region. "There was a 'blast' incident in Kadiivka, where the Russians tried to hide their trucks with ammunition at the local [] We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Belarusian MFA now call the entire thing fake, while anti-Lukashenko media claim the police are already looking for a suspect and his car. The Kursk region north of Belgorod reported overnight explosions in the administrative center of Kursk. 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