Residents near Toropets arms depot evacuated amid huge explosions and fires
Tver regional governor Igor Rudenya arriving for a meeting in Toropets, a town some 400km west of Moscow and more than 500km north of the Ukrainian border. Photograph: press service of the government of the Tver region of Russia via AP
“The SBU, together with comrades from the defence forces, continues methodically to reduce the enemy’s missile potential which it uses to destroy Ukrainian cities. We will work further to create similar scenes at other Russian military facilities that are working for the war against Ukraine,” an SBU source told the NV news outlet.
Earthquake monitors picked up tremors near Toropets and satellites operated by US space agency Nasa detected intense heat from an area of about 14 square kilometres near the town, which is some 400km west of Moscow and more than 500km north of the Ukrainian border.
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