Russia. A large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on Russia triggered an earthquake-sized explosion at a major military arsenal in the Tver region, forcing the evacuation of a nearby town, Russian war bloggers and some media reported. A massive fireball exploded high in the night sky, and multiple detonations were seen and heard across a lake 380 km west of Moscow. NASA satellites detected intense heat sources emanating from an area of approximately 14 square kilometers. “Everything that can burn is already burning there (and exploding),” Russian blogs reported. According to George William Herbert of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, the size of the main explosion is consistent with the detonation of 200-240 tons of high explosives. The arsenal stored missiles for the S-300, S-400 and Grad systems, as well as North Korean-made Iskander and KN24 missiles, worth several thousand tons of explosive material.
