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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

Syria: Israel carries out audacious raid on underground Iranian missile base inside Syria

(Masyaf) So last Sunday (8th Sept 2024) It was reported that Israel carried how numerous air strikes across Syria including the Scientific Studies and Research Center in Masyaf (Which is believed to be used by Syria as a development centre for missiles and chemical weaponry)

Well , it is now coming out in the wash, that the entire rash of airstrikes across Syria, was not only a  huge diversion , but also used to degrade Syrian Air defence in which to allow IDF special forces to carry out a raid on an underground Iranian missile base to the south west of Masyaf who choppered in, entered the underground base, killed a load of Syrian guards, captured a number of Iranians working there, set explosives, blew the place up and left ASAP. 

The .@IDF and the .@IAFsite destroyed reported Iranian underground missile factory in #Syria ground raid
.@BarakRavid on .@axios
1/ https://t.co/bCCXT7BNEH pic.twitter.com/oCYfBdfDtz

— Ronen (@RonenStauber) September 12, 2024

🧵⚔️ BREAKING: Israeli Forces Infiltrate Iranian Missile Facility in Syria 🚨

Israel’s largest airstrikes in years targeted an Iranian missile facility near Masyaf. Reports say Israeli forces infiltrated the site and gathered key intelligence.

Here’s what we know 👇 pic.twitter.com/fU2nrIBTp2

— Voice from the East (@easternvoices) September 12, 2024

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Russia: Ukraine takes out a Ammo dump containing North Korean Ballistic missiles

(Soldatskoe) On the evening of the 7th Sept 2024, Kyiv carried out a drone attack on a Russian Ammunition compound in the village of Soldatskoe Voronezh Oblast

Yes, Ukraine has struck numerous Russia ammunition compounds since Feb 2022, but this one is slightly different as it was used to hold KN-23 Ballistic Missiles supplied by North Korea.

Basically its the North Korean version of the Russian Iskander M Ballistic missile, which has been purchased on mass by Moscow to make up the deficit in Short range Ballistic Missiles it has suffered due to its 3 day special operation now approaching the 3 year point.

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🇺🇦Ukrainian drones hit ammunition warehouse in Russia's Voronezh Oblast.#Ukraine #Voronezh pic.twitter.com/zrGQWhF1kh

— WORLD AT WAR (@World_At_War_6) September 7, 2024

Voronezh Oblast, Soldatskoye. Ammunition depot, September 7, 2024. pic.twitter.com/5AsiQUPfOb

— Russia on fire (@russiasonfire) September 7, 2024

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Russia: Putin lays down terms for a ceasefire.

(Moscow)  So Vladimir Putin speaking to diplomats at the Russian foreign ministry, issued his demands to Kyiv in order to halt his invasion of the Ukraine. they were:

• That Ukrainian troops leave the entire regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia and that they be declared Russian territory by international agreement,
• Drop its NATO bid in order for him to end his war in Ukraine.

He also issued a demand to the West which was:

• drop all financial sanctions against Russia as a precondition to a ceasefire

To be fair, nothing has really changed as Moscow has laid claim to the 4 oblasts since the 30th of September 2022, however and a big however weeks after that proclamation Moscow suffered huge reversals in Kharkiv and Kherson Oblasts  meaning that currently Moscow doesnt fully control any of the Oblasts it covets. 

So here is what Moscow currently occupies inside the Ukraine:

What its demands are:

We saw something similar in 2014 when Moscow annexed the Crimea, which the world was told was all Russia wanted and in Feb 2022 we saw different. Who's to say that if Kyiv accepts this so called peace deal, that in say 8 years time after Russia has made good its losses, it decides its wants more. I mean isn't that how Russia has operated for over 200 years

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