Satellite images of the results of the Ukrainian Defense Forces' strike on the 107th GRAU arsenal of the russian Ministry of Defense near the city of Toropets in the Tver region have appeared in open sources, showing "seismic" effects, including a local earthquake measuring 2.8 on the Richter scale.
The images clearly illustrate that the entire territory of this massive arsenal is in ruins and covered in smoke. OSINT analyst George Barros shared the relevant materials.
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Earlier, there were public speculations about whether the Palianytsia rocket drones could have hit the warehouses in the city of Toropets, as the sound of a jet engine was heard in the attack footage.
However, based on the released images, we can now assume the following: either a significant number of Palianytsia rocket drones struck the warehouse, or it was a more powerful domestic missile system, such as the one used in strikes on the occupiers' ammunition depots near Mariupol — in other words, a modernized Neptune.
Because if we look again at the provided images and assess the possible scale of the fire, it seems highly unlikely to resemble the "falling of drone debris" that the russian administration claimed, or the impact of one or even several drones.
At the same time, we must emphasize that our conclusions are preliminary at this stage. A definitive assessment of the damage to the 107th GRAU arsenal of the russian Ministry of Defense near the city of Toropets can only be made once the fire at the site is extinguished (either by the russians themselves or after it burns out naturally).
Only then will it be possible to definitively determine whether North Korean KN-23 ballistic missiles or russian Iskander missiles were stored at this facility.
At the same time, what can definitely be dismissed at this point are claims from certain sources that tactical nuclear warheads might have been stored at the arsenal near the city of Toropets, and that their detonation supposedly caused the seismic result. If tactical nuclear warheads had indeed been there, the explosion would have caused a significant radiation leak, which would hardly have gone unnoticed throughout Eastern Europe, let alone Ukraine.
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