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Russia: Ukraine carries out devastating attack on Russian ammunition compound

(Toropets) is a town and the administrative center of Toropetsky District in Tver Oblast, Russia.

It is also where in 2015, Moscow decided to build a huge ammunition compound which conformed to the highest modern safety standards and which they claimed would be able to withstand a small nuclear strike. which may explain why Moscow had around 30000 tonnes of ammunition in store there which included Iskander and Tochka-U missile systems, guided aerial bombs and assorted artillery ammunition. ... including some North Korean munitions. Well apparently somebody forgot to send that memo to Kyiv who struck the ammunition compound over the night of the 17th and early morning of the 18th of September when it carried out a drone strike on the compound resulting in this:

in fact so devastating was the blast it was recorded as a 2.9 Magnitude earthquake. Finnish microsatellite manufacturer ICEYE released this SAR image showing the extent of the damage to the ammunition storage site

In response, Russia claims that they shot down all the drones the Ukraine launched at the ammunition compound, but the wreckage from one they shot down landed on the ammo dump and set off a chain of explosions. Whatever the cause, the simple fact remains , Moscow has lost a lot of ammunition this past week.

Lebanon: Huge attack on Hezbollah operatives

(Beirut)  In what can only be deemed as audacious, somebody (looks at Israel) tampered with electronic communication devices used by Hezb-allah and on Tuesday 17^th September 2024 decided to detonate them. The initial strike targeted pagers which Hezb-allah started rolling out earlier this year, which it did so as to replace much higher tech Smart phones, which they believed could be compromised by others (looks again at Israel) and which they feel has been the reason how Israel has been able to successfully target Hezb-allah , Hamas and Iranian leaders. The use of pagers was seen as a cheap low tech solution to the problem above. But it appears that somebody (looks at Israel) was ahead of the curve here and set up a plan of action in which to doctor the order that Hezb-allah had placed for such and as we saw on Tuesday , at the push of a button somebody (Yup looks again at Israel) was able to detonate the newly supplied pagers resulting in the crippling of around 4000 Hezb-allah operatives and around 13 deaths

This was followed Wednesday (18th September 2024)  by a second wave of explosions , which this time targeted walkie talkies which ironically were also purchased at the same time resulting in another 20 deaths and around 450 injuries.

At a stroke somebody has managed to paralyse Hezb-allahs ability to communicate , which may explain why the IDF has started carrying out air attacks on Hezb-allah positions as of Thursday morning.  (19th September 2024)``

With the direction of IDF intelligence, the IAF struck approximately 30 Hezbollah launchers and terrorist infrastructure sites, containing approximately 150 launcher barrels that were ready to fire projectiles toward Israeli territory.

Additionally, the IDF struck Hezbollah… https://t.co/uqezvGXdZh

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 19, 2024