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May 2 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
There was an #explosion yesterday at a munitions factory in #Perm, central #Russia, which manufactures charges used in Grad and Smerch missile systems. There were at least two deaths. The link below is to a local news article about the explosion. 🧵 1/
echoperm.ru/news/261/16936…
Note this unusual information from the first news article about the explosion in #Perm, #Russia: "comments and photos [about] the explosion began to appear in social networks in the evening, May 1, but the administrators of the groups for an unknown reason deleted everything." 2/
A subsequent local news article about the #Perm, #Russia #explosion states that the cause of the explosion is still under investigation. 3/
echoperm.ru/news/261/16936…
Russian state news is now reporting on the munitions factory #explosion in #Perm, largely mirroring what already was known from local media. The state report, however, is surprisingly detailed about the defense-related products produced at the factory. 4/
ria.ru/20220502/pozha…
#Perm, the city in #Russia where there was a deadly #explosion at a munitions factory yesterday, is located in the interior of the country, close to the Ural mountains.

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The May 2 edition of @TheStudyofWar and @criticalthreats Ukraine war update is out. Here's a link to it. The rest of this thread includes the key takeaways from the update, verbatim from the report. 1/
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Another briefing with a "senior U.S. defense official" is going on at the Pentagon. @JackDetsch is tweeting highlights, and I'll string all of them together into a single (long) 🧵 for easy reference. I'll also append any summaries Jack shares later.
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Ukraine has destroyed two Russian navy patrol boats near Snake Island in the Black Sea. The Raptor patrol, which are 55 feet (17 m) in length, were attacked by drone. Each boat can carry up to 20 marines and a crew of three. 1/
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There has been air activity over #Belgorod, #Russia tonight (May 1-2). At first it seemed to be just air defense measures or perhaps an air battle (see below). But now there are reports of explosions that sound like more than just sonic booms. 🧵 for updates & clarifications. 1/
Thus far, there have been reports of two #explosions overnight in #Belgorod, #Russia, occurring during or after air activity also was visible. This video records one of the explosions. 2/
This second video also records an explosion that took tonight in #Belgorod, #Russia. 3/
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The latest (May 1) Ukraine war update from @TheStudyofWar and @criticalthreats is out. Here is a link to it; key takeaways, verbatim from the report, are in the posts in the rest of this thread. 1/
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2. "Ukrainian forces likely conducted a rocket artillery strike on a Russian command post in Izyum on April 30 that struck after Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov had left but killed other senior Russian officers." 3/
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