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I can't share the imagery but the higher resolution images of Toropets a Russian ammunition train was at the depot and was also utterly obliterated around 50 plus ammo cars
Image 1 highlighted in pink are the approximate lengths of the ammo cars that were either loading or offloading

Images 2-4 highlighted in dark red


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Just using a standard box car in the United States. You can fit 540 artillery shells per boxcar. Russia loads their trains slightly differently but keeping it easy. There's about 80 rail cars that I've been able to identify or what's left of them so up to 43,200 artillery shells. Though that likely was mixed with some rockets dropping the amount of artillery shells, but just the given idea of the quantity of stuff on these rail cars.
It has been reported multiple times throughout 2024 that Russia has been firing 10,000 artillery shells per day in Ukraine so this train had up to 4 days worth of artillery destroyed at Toropets
Though Russia loads their trains the same way they loaded their trains in World War II, which is the same way they loaded their trains in World War 1.


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Sep 21
40,000 tons of ammunition blown up is apparently less than 1% of what Russia produces.

Like to know where Russia is producing and storing what would be the equivalent of 220,000 artillery shells per day.

Also 3 ammo depots exploded.

Also mixed up tonnage with number of shells.

Russia claims to make 3 million shells not 3 million tons of shells that 3 million shells equals 171,000 tons
So Ukraine destroyed 23.39% of Russia's yearly production in 3 days.

Losing 3 months of production is supposed to be no biggie lol.

Losing 30-60 days of munitions is supposed to be no biggie lol.

Explain Push Logistics and it's role in the Russian military with the Russian Railways and come back and say no impact on the battle space.Image
Will this suddenly stop Russia's advance? And will Ukraine all of a sudden be able to start retaking large swaths of land? No, this will do is significantly degrade Russian combat capabilities resulting in decreased abilities to advance make the decisions on ending offensive operations and go back on the defense to preserve resources or make the decisions, you significantly reduce resources in certain sectors to sustain offensive operations in another, thus leaving the depleted sector vulnerable by being ill-equipped to sustain operational tempos
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Sep 21
Tonight Ukrainian OWA-UAV's successfully struck and have severely damaged the Toropets South Ammunition Depot now known as 23rd GRAU Arsenal at Oktyabrskii.
This depot sits 10 miles south of Toropets Northeast Ammunition Depot known as the 107th GRAU Arsenal which was destroyed several days ago.
This depot has not seen significant expansion since the declassified June 1964 report by the National Photographic Interpretation Center now known as the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

The data right now indicates that moderate fire to original storage depots going west to east along the rail and fire at the eastern outskirts of
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Toropets South Ammunition Depot has a total of 71 buildings

Protected: 57
Unprotected: 14

The buildings on the Southern end have been torn down and munitions are stored in the open unprotected. The footprint of these buildings used to measure 290' x 80 ft.

The bulk of the buildings on the Northern end of the depot measure 170' x 50' ft and the one 290' x 80' building was torn down and munitions are also stored in the open.

Toropets South is served by a rail spur from the branch line from the
Moscow/Velikiye Luki rail line.
The depot also is served by a secondary road system connecting Toropets and Staraya Toropa.

The total amount of munitions if this depot was fully stocked roughly 10,000~ tons stored inside the ammo bunkers and the amount of munitions stored in the open is likely around 4,000~ tons
The importance of Ukraine taking out this depot will be felt immediately, particularly in Task Group North.

The 23rd GRAU Arsenal like most Soviet and Russian Military Depots such as the 107th GRAU Arsenal targeted earlier in the week is directly connected to the Russian rail network.

The 23rd GRAU Arsenal has munitions shipped by RZD West to
Velikiye Luki then to Nevel then south into Belarus passing the Belarus Ammunition depot at 55.511101,29.937067 then continues to Vitebsk Belarus then crosses the border back into Russia going to Smolensk where it continues down to Bryansk then Lgov or Oryol then to Kursk then to Belgorod to Task Group North. Other munitions continue from Kursk to Start Oskol then to Valuyki into Occupied Ukraine or to Voronezh continuing South towards Rostov then back into occupied Ukraine.

This depot also highlights the complicity and involvement of the Belarus government in Russia's aggression in Ukraine by continuing to allow Russian Railways freedom to ship military goods through their country before going to Russian Forces in Ukraine.

To further highlight the importance of Toropets and the Rail line to Smolensk and Task Group North recall August 12th 2024 thread on "Collapse of Russian Railway" with Russian Railways prohibiting Belarus Railway from operating trains from Orsha-Smolensk and Vitebsk-Smolensk and to include prohibition of Belarus trains from operating to Oryol and Kursk branchs of the Moscow Railway (MRZhD RR) effective immediately from 12.08.2024 no end date given.



GPS Icon and Line in Orange goes from Toropets South Ammunition Depot to Velikiye Luki .

Red GPS icon is Toropets Northeast Ammunition Depot.

Green Lines are where ammo is passing to get to the front.

Red line are shut down due to Ukrainian Kursk Offensive.Image
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Sep 18
Perfectly calm weather and the nuclear bomb sized ammonia nitrate fire ship Ruby magically has lost propulsion engines down and no longer under command right outside a large Norwegian Naval Base
What's currently wrong with the ship

Lost propulsion,
Hull cracked,
Crew without papers,
Unlawful fuel with high sulphur levels,
2 notes on lack in safety.
Ruby Ship
20,000 Tons Ammonia Nitrate

Beirut Explosion 2020
2,750 Tons Ammonia Nitrate

Literally if this ship explodes your looking at a near Hiroshima sized explosion.

This ship has 7x the amount of Ammonia Nitrate than the Beirut Explosion of 2020.
Read 4 tweets
Sep 18
Tonight Ukrainian OWA-UAV's successfully struck and have severely damaged the Toropets Northeast Ammunition Depot which has seen significant expansion since the declassified June 1965 report by the National Photographic Interpretation Center now known as the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

The data right now indicates that there is significant damage to the newer expansions of the depot, primarily among the reinforced ammunition bunkers on the eastern side of the facility along with several of the original 150' x 40' storage buildings and among the barracks and administrative buildings by the depot entrance on the Northern side of the depot.
Today this former Soviet Era Munitions Depot is operated by the 107th GRAU Arsenal which expanded with the depot with an addition of 42 reinforced bunkers and 23 non reinforced storage and maintenance buildings likely housing several tens of thousands of tons of munitions such as Air Defense Missiles and Surface to Surface Missiles.Image
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This is not including the original depot which had about 50 storage buildings plus several maintenance buildings excluding the administrative area with barracks, motor pool and vehicle maintenance
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Sep 14
The Russian so called Kursk counter-offensive, which was no more than a counter-attack has now been reduced to a fighting retreat


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Sep 12
After once again falsely stating that the US has provided more than Europe Vance gets into the meat and potatoes of the Trump/Vance policy for Ukraine and that is to "Find an appeasable settlement with Russia likely on the current frontline and create a demilitarized zone and make guaranteed assurances with Russia on "Ukrainian neutrality" and deny Ukraine entry to all "allied institutions”
What does this actually mean?

Minsk agreement 3.

Which will inevitably fail and see resumption of hostilities making the entire endeavor by a hypothetical Trump Administration fruitless because it's not actually going to stop anything, it will just give Russia time to regroup re-equip and rearm its forces
A Trump/Vance Administration would seek to create Minsk accords 3 freezing the conflict on the current front lines. So interestingly, Ukraine gets to keep Kursk while isolating Ukraine from future weapons and aid and seeing sanctions on Russia lifted, which again will give Russia the breathing room to re-equip and rearm its forces and invade again with renewed vigor and who is going to oversee the demilitarized zone to actually ensure neither side is violating the agreements. No one.

Trump calls himself a deal maker. This is a really shitty deal that will only result in more war, more escalation and more suffering for all and more expensive for the American taxpayer having to foot the bill for cold war 2.
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