Russia-Ukraine Flash Report - 3/29/22 13:00 PDT
Added 2022-03-29 20:00:21 +0000 UTCUkraine attacked Russia, and the reports are confirmed by Russian state media.
Ukrainian forces shelled a Russian military camp southwest of Belgorod - Russian state media is reporting four people were injured.
A large ammunition dump in Belgorod exploded around the same time. There are multiple videos of a massive explosion with multiple secondary blasts.
Russia state media is confirming the explosion (it would be impossible to say it didn't happen) and is claiming it was caused by an accident.
There are multiple reports the blast was caused by a Ukrainian SRBM.
Russian forces have lost a lot of ground around Kharkiv in the last week. Ukraine has made a statement that their military is still intact, and they can reach Russian soil.
Tactically or strategically this was relatively meaningless. Psychologically, this is significant.
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no need to be - with Western and Russian State Media has reported on it. Neither side seems overly concerned. There are a bunch of scenarios here, and it likely wasn't an artillery shell, unless Russian lines northeast of Kharkiv have been pushed back a lot further than we thought. We suspect this was a rocket - possibly stray - another possibility, crashed combat drone that lost signal or malfunctioned. A reminder too, the apparent explosion at an ammo dump is unrelated. These two incidents happened at different places and times (but relatively close together on the timeline). The FOB is geolocated and is just over the border
2022-03-30 16:07:52 +0000 UTCIs it wrong that I'm happy to read this?
2022-03-30 02:52:30 +0000 UTCA great psychological victory for Ukraine and one step closer to regime change in Russiaβ¦
2022-03-30 00:57:47 +0000 UTCPsychologically I'm stressed about it.
WthinWthout
2022-03-29 22:27:56 +0000 UTC