Ukraine strikes ammunition depot storing Iranian missiles in Russia
- 30 September, 09:38
Ukrainian forces have struck a military depot in Russia’s Volgograd region that reportedly stored ammunition delivered from Iran, General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces announced on Sunday.
The arsenal of ammunition belonging to the Main Directorate of Missile and Artillery Armament of the Russian Defence Ministry was hit near Kotluban village in Volgograd region.
"There was a stockpile of Iranian ballistic missiles and their launchers stored there," Andrii Kovalеnко, the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council said in a post in Telegram. Fire broke out in the depot after the strike and residents are being evacuated, Kovalenko said. The operation to attack the Kotluban military depot was carried out jointly with Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Special Operations Forces, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the Security Service of Ukraine, the General Staff revealed.
The attack comes amid Ukraine’s massive drone attack targeting military facilities across seven Russian regions – Krasnodar, Volgograd, Voronezh, Rostov, Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk - on the night leading to September 29. One of the military depots in Krasnodar’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk town was used for launching Shaheed attack drones. Last week, Ukrainian intelligence service struck two more Russian military depots in Tver and Krasnodar regions.
