Footage shared on social media allegedly shows a Russian sport exploding after it was apparently hit by a Ukrainian missile. The ammunition depot is believed to be in Popasna, in the currently occupied region of Luhansk, eastern Ukraine. The video shows how gray smoke slowly rises in the air after the impact before erupting in a full-scale flame.
A succession of explosions was filmed leading to a wall of black smoke rising in the air, with flames also leaking upwards.
Two people can be heard commenting on the strike, and then laughing as they watch the depot crumble through the flames.
Twitter account @Blue_Sauron, who shared footage of Ukraine’s defense forces retaliating against Russia, shared the video commenting on the increasing precision Kiev is showing.
They said: “Massive explosion of an alleged Russian ammunition depot in Popasna after it was hit by a precise Ukrainian attack.
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“Russian ammunition depots go [boom] too often lately, I wonder why. “
Russia had hoped for a swift takeover of Ukraine, but both defense forces and civilians maintained fierce resistance to the invaders.
NATO members lined up to provide Kyiv with military and financial assistance to push Moscow’s forces back to Russia for nearly five months.
Vladimir Putin’s troops were first forced to abandon plans to take over the Ukrainian capital in order to return to the conquest of most of eastern Ukraine.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov quoted President Vladimir Putin as saying “that the Russian armed forces are not working with civilian targets.”
A Russian missile struck a crowded shopping center in central Ukraine earlier this week, killing at least 19 people.
Thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 in what Moscow called a “special operation” to exterminate nationalists.
Ukraine and its Western allies say it is an unprovoked war of aggression.