Ukraine’s armed forces allegedly struck the munitions storage facility in the Pokrovsk district of Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk, where Russian and Ukrainian troops have for months been engaged in a grinding war of attrition.
In the video, an initial explosion is seen, followed by a series of much larger explosions, in what appears to be the detonation of material on the ground.
The alleged strike on a thermobaric ammunition storage warehouse in Donetsk (Photo: General Staff of Ukraine/ Telegram)The alleged strike on a thermobaric ammunition storage warehouse in Donetsk (Photo: General Staff of Ukraine/ Telegram)In addition, it added that Ukraine had hit three other facilities in Russia itself, including the Ilsky Oil Refinery in the Krasnodar of the country’s south, “which is involved in the provision of the Russian army of occupation”.
Often filled with aerosolised solid fuel, thermobaric weapons instantly suck the oxygen out of the air, a vacuum effect that creates a massive fireball and produces an especially powerful blast wave.
A serviceman of the 14th Assault Brigade Chervona Kalyna of the Ukrainian National Guard carries a Leleka reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle before flying over positions of Russian troops, near the frontline town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk on 26 February 2025 (Photo: Inna Varenytsia/ Reuters)Ukraine’s General Staff said the results of the strikes on Russian facilities were being clarified.
Ukrainian soldiers from an drone unit prepare drones to attack enemy positions in the direction of Pokrovsk in Donetsk (Photo: Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
However, Ukraine has escalated its attacks on Russian military facilities in the past several months, targeting weapons factories and storage facilities as well as energy infrastructure. It has launched repeated attacks against Russian refineries with long-range drones.
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Read MoreMeanwhile in Ukraine’s east, Russian forces have been making small but steady gains, taking several villages near Pokrovsk, which they have been trying to take for a year,
“The Kremlin may have abandoned even that effort for now, however, in the fact of increasing Ukrainian resistance in the area and extremely high Russian losses.”
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