According to Kiviselg, the attack was exceedingly successful because some of the ammunition was stored outside secure bunkers, leading to a chain of secondary detonations. “Thirty thousand tons of ammunition,

"Bishop Adrian of Rzhevsky and Toropetsky, in a report addressed to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, notes that city buildings and residential premises were damaged by the shock wave,

Russia said it was working to repel a Ukrainian drone attack on Toropets, where there's a major military depot, as explosions lit up the night.

Renovated in 2018, the facility in Toropets is estimated to have stored tonnes upon tonnes of military goods, including explosives, artillery shells and ballistic missiles.

Ukrainian drone attack on Russian arsenal triggers explosions, fire, and evacuation. US defense stocks react to reports.

A Ukrainian drone attack destroyed a warehouse storing missiles, guided bombs and artillery ammunition in Russia's Tver region, a source in Ukraine's SBU state security service told Reuters on Wednesday.

Ukrainian drones hit an ammunition depot inside Russia this week, the latest attack targeting military facilities deep within the country.

Sources in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) confirmed to AFP that Ukrainian drones destroyed an ammunition depot in the Tver region in western Russia. The strength of the explosions was so great that they were visible in NASA satellite images and caused a minor earthquake.