Judging by the sound delay, the explosion was likely up to 5 miles away. BBC interviewed locals, who claimed that the shock waves were so powerful they might have died if they were just outside. Zelenskyy’s delusional war is suicidal, this must end
Target was most likely a large ammunition depot. Judging by the sheer amount, that was their storage for their entire spring counteroffensive. Welp.
You should try reading this (the whole thing, not just the beginning, which does come off as doomeristic)
So I followed your advice and read this. Now I’m not simply anxious, but outright terrified of what’s to come.
Some excerpts:
Because apparently a gas monopoly has its own private military. And that doesn’t concern anybody important.
So the author alleges that the minister of defence has his own private army. What kind of warlord shit is this?
Not sure what evidence is there for this. Sounds like wishful thinking, honestly.
The rest of the article is decent, if perhaps a bit optimistic. I.e. it glosses over the possibility of terrorism performed by UA special forces (something their Western trainers are quite good at) and the reaction of the Russian citizens to that - heck, apparently there’s been an attemped drone strike on Moscow Kremlin just last night.
The article also cheers on the usage of glide bombs to devastate entire housing blocks, yet ignores how it will impact civilians, their desire to fight Russia and the cost of rebuilding afterwards. All the while UA politicians and oligarchs (who started the whole affair) are free to travel westward and could escape unimpeded at moment’s notice.
Finally, the closing statement is ridiculous. Even if we concede using Dugin as a source, the quote itself is just silly.
So now your problem with the war effort is no longer that Russia will lose and that would doom communism, but that Russia will win and this would also doom communism?
Ukraine has received weapons from the West amounting to 200 billion dollars of aid, , more than Russia’s entire annual military budget, Russia has sent 200,000 men plus SOBR, Wagner, and some Chechens to defeat Ukraine’s 800,000 strong standing army plus hundreds of thousands of conscripts, the BBC has admitted that only around 20,000 Russians have died, Ukraine’s GDP has fell by 30% (literally Great Depression levels with no end in sight), while Russia’s had only fallen by 3% and is now projected to grow faster than Germany and the US. Men are dragged off the streets in Odessa to be thrown into Bakhmut while 80% of Orekhov, the AFU’s planned springboard for the Crimea offensive, was just blown to shreds in retaliation for an attack by a drone most likely launched by some Russian saboteur that didn’t even light the flag on fire as Zelenskyy desperately tries to use vague psychological victories instead of a now impossible superoffensive to keep the Western aid flowing.