New satellite image shows tremendous damage after one of Russia's largest ammo depots exploded

• One of Russia's largest ammunition depots exploded earlier successful the week.

• Satellite imagery captured connected Thursday shows important harm astatine the tract northeast of Moscow.

• The representation appears to amusement destroyed buildings and wide scorched earth.

Satellite imagery captured Thursday shows extended harm astatine 1 of Russia's largest ammunition depots aft it caught occurrence and exploded earlier successful the week.

An representation taken by Planet Labs and obtained by Business Insider reveals important demolition astatine the 51st Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) Arsenal, an ammunition analyzable located northeast of Moscow successful the Vladimir region, implicit 300 miles from the borderline with Ukraine. It's a immense facility.

The overhead representation shows what appears to beryllium destroyed buildings and scorched earth, accordant with fires caused by the archetypal and consequent explosions that witnesses filmed Tuesday. The afloat grade of the harm astatine the 51st GRAU is unclear, but it seems that a ample information of the installation was affected.

The Russian defence ministry didn't place the installation by sanction successful its statement, but it said that a occurrence astatine an unnamed subject tract successful the Vladimir portion caused ammunition to detonate successful a warehouse. Several radical were reportedly wounded successful the aftermath.

Russian authorities media said a authorities of exigency was declared successful the circumstantial territory wherever the 51st GRAU is located.

In a connection posted to Telegram, the Russian ministry wrote: "The origin of the occurrence is simply a usurpation of information requirements erstwhile moving with explosive materials." It said the incidental would beryllium investigated.

In the aftermath of the blast, videos began to look connected societal media of what were said to beryllium Russian munitions raining down connected adjacent civilian areas.

Ukraine's strategical communications halfway described the ammunition installation arsenic 1 of Russia's largest munitions arsenals. Andriy Kovalenko, the caput of Kyiv's Center for Countering Disinformation, said the tract holds immoderate 100,000 tons of weaponry, including artillery shells and missiles. BI could not independently verify these details.

Russia has a past of accidents similar the 1 astatine the 51st GRAU. Four radical were killed successful June 2022 astatine this installation erstwhile ammunition exploded during unloading operations. And different Russian ammo depot blew up doubly successful 2019.

Amid the ongoing war, Russia's ammunition depots person besides been high-value targets for Ukraine, which has utilized domestically produced missiles and drones to wage a precise palmy deep-strike run against its neighbor's subject and vigor facilities.

Ukrainian forces attacked respective Russian ammunition depots successful the fall, demonstrating their agelong scope and the evident ineffectiveness of Moscow's aerial defenses.

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