Yuriy Kobzar19:36, 09/21/24

Such losses will certainly affect the situation on the front line.

Approximately three months’ supply of ammunition for the Russian army was destroyed in warehouses in the Tver region . This will have an impact on the front, writes The New York Times with reference to experts.

As experts note, the destruction of large warehouses with ammunition in Russia is of key importance for Ukraine, since the occupiers have a significant advantage in firepower. 

“The only way to defeat the Russian army is to destroy its logistics. This is the destruction of the most important component of the war. Tanks and guns without ammunition will not fire and will simply be ineffective,” said Serhiy Kuzan, head of the non-governmental research group of the Ukrainian Center for Security and Cooperation.

The first powerful blow of this week was struck by Ukraine on Wednesday – against the arsenal near the city of Toropets, Tver region. The head of Estonia’s military intelligence center, Colonel Ants Kiviselg, estimates that 30,000 tons of shells could have been destroyed in this attack, equivalent to approximately 750,000 shells.

“This is a supply of ammunition for two to three months. As a result of this attack, Russia suffered losses in ammunition, and we will see the impact of these losses on the front in the coming weeks,” he said.

The scale of Russian losses as a result of the new attack on Saturday night remains to be determined. For example, it is known that the “Tikhoretsk” arsenal in the Krasnodar Territory, where it “arrived” today, most likely stored shells from North Korea.

Analysts say that the Tykhorets warehouse was an important link in the supply of Russian troops. It is approximately the same distance from the war zone in Donbas and from Crimea, through which ammunition is supplied to the southern front.

It also remains unclear what type of weapon Ukraine used to attack the warehouses. Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow in aviation and technology at the Royal Joint Services Institute, said a low-power drone would be sufficient if the munitions were stored in the open air.

But Serhii Kuzan, mentioned above, noted that the ammunition depots were protected by earthen ramparts and underground concrete shelters, which made it difficult to attack them with drones.

“This requires not just a missile, it must be a heavy missile,” he said, pointing to long-range weapons supplied to Ukraine by Western allies, such as the British-French Storm Shadow missiles.

At least publicly, the Allies still prohibited Ukraine from using these weapons deep in Russia

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