Published February 8, 2024
A powerful explosion rocked the suburbs of the city of Izhevsk in central Russia on Wednesday night, with state-run media reporting that the blast occurred at a machine and missile production facility.
Videos shared on social media showed a large fireball lighting up the night sky over the testing grounds of the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant in the village of Yagul, located just outside the republic of Udmurtia’s capital city, some 1,000 kilometers east of Moscow.
The state-run TASS news agency, citing an anonymous emergency dispatcher, reported that the explosion was part of a “planned” rocket test.
“It was a rocket engine test. It wasn’t an emergency,” the source was quoted as saying.
Udmurtia’s local branch of Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry wrote on the Telegram messaging app that “No emergencies were reported, no socially significant incidents occurred.”
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SOURCE: www.moscowtimes.com
RELATED: Zircon Missile Used For Strike on Kyiv: Apparently, the russian “Wunderwaffe” Was Shot Down
Published February 7, 2024
Multiple indications suggest that russian forces launched their “hypersonic” Zircon missile on February 7th, and it might be not the first time
During the missile attack on February 7th, 2024, russian forces used a 3M22 Zircon missile to try and strike down a target in Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv. The photos of wreckage found after the missile points to this possibility.
Specifically, one of the photos shows a piece of debris with a “3M22” marking corresponding to this type of missile, which alongside the Kh-47 Kinzhal belongs to the so-called “Putin’s wunderwaffe,” or simply russian most-advertised “hypersonic” weapons of long-range strike capability.
Considering the location where the wreckage was found, namely the Dniprovskyi district of Kyiv, and that electric power transmission lines are unlikely to become the target for a missile worth millions of dollars, the plausible version is that it was shot down by the city’s air defenses. The official report from the Ukrainian Air Force, however, mentions only Kh-555/101 and Kalibr cruise missiles as intercepted (alongside Shahed drones).
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SOURCE: www.en.defence-ua.com
RELATED: Ukraine war: Russian air strikes claim five lives in Kyiv and Mykolaiv
Four people were killed in Kyiv and another man died in Mykolaiv, authorities said
Published February 7, 2024
Russian missile and drone strikes targeted cities across Ukraine on Wednesday morning, killing at least five people and wounding dozens more, Ukrainian authorities said.
Four people were killed when a block of flats was hit in Kyiv’s south-western Holosiyivsky district.
A man was also killed in the southern city of Mykolaiv, officials said.
The whole country was put under air alert and attacks were reported as far west as Lviv, near the Polish border.
Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said Russia had fired 64 missiles and drones, of which 44 were intercepted. According to the Ukrainian air force, Russian cruise missiles were detected above the western regions of Lviv, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said initially that two people had been killed in “another massive attack against our country”. Further victims were found in the rubble of the 18-floor residential building.
