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submitted 1 week ago by perestroika@lemm.ee to c/world@lemmy.world

Apparently, Ukrainian drones pushed through and started a chain reaction.

Explosions reportedly continued for hours, and authorities evacuated nearby settlements. Initial reports indicate that the site, previously protected by one of Russia’s densest air defense networks, suffered catastrophic damage.

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[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 124 points 1 week ago

Can we have links to more reputable, known news sites please? Never heard of that one. Here's the BBC.

Russia's military blamed the blast on ammunition which had detonated after the storage building caught fire due to a "violation of safety requirements".

Huh, I suppose maybe a drone-sized violation?

[-] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 57 points 1 week ago

Have seen euromaidanpress articles before, I think they're legit if not a bit sensationalist and obviously very pro-Ukraine.

And of course Russia blames a smoooooking incident. There's this one Russian guy who just smokes everywhere he shouldn't. Munition storages, aviation bases, flagship Moskva...

[-] figjam@midwest.social 26 points 1 week ago

Same guy who removes the safety rails around balconies

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Sensationalism is the kind of red flags I run away from.. Obviously the BBC have their own political slant, but I'm aware of it and can correct for that. Same when I read an article from something like Fox "News".

But if you give me some unknown site of which I don't know the background and more importantly, who's funding it, then it's useless to me and I'll just add it to the bunch of misinformation machines I run into everyday.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago

The safety violation will be that the ammunition wasn't stored in the proper storage bunkers and was therefore vulnerable to an attack setting off the whole lot.

...and then an attack did just that.

Alexander Avdeyev also threatened journalists and residents with fines if they shared unofficial information about the blast.

ah yes, i always threaten journalists when there's nothing to report

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You cannot ask for a serious source and then link the BBC.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, the ol' "Anything I don't agree with is biased."

Do you right wing idiots ever get together and write new scripts? Your reruns are getting tired.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think it's more that the British Press in general is pretty political, heavy on the spin and hence one of the least trusted in Europe by the locals themselves.

When it comes to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine - which is very politically and geostrategically significant for the UK government - the level and direction of the bias of the BBC is no different from the Euromaidan Press hence for those who think the latter is not a "serious source", the former is also not a "serious source".

Mind you, on different subjects which are not related to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (such as the Israeli Genocide in Gaza) I fully expect the Euromaidan Press is often less biased (on this specific example, significantly so) than the BBC.

Just because the BBC is posh doesn't mean they're honest (in fact from my own experience living in the UK, posh more often than not means fake. manipulative and dishonest)

[-] SharkWeek 5 points 1 week ago

Hi, I'm a left wing rather than right wing idiot. The BBC has proved itself an unreliable source plenty of times. They're beholden to political influence (see today's story about one of their staff not being allowed to talk about heat pumps because it's a "political issue")

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

And what sort of bias do they have? Their directors and senior journalists are time-servers and toadies put in place by the Conservatives during their 14 years in power. Starmer has not cleaned up that mess. Gilligan: Tory. Kuenssberg: Tory and Boris Johnson admirer. There are few centre-left voices and none at all speaking from a more leftist point of view.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Did you find that Hamas base under the hospital yet?

Ha. They don’t write- they wait to be given their talking points, and parrot them until new ones are issued.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Of course I can, look, I just did.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

At that point stick with Euromaidan. They are more credible than BBC.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Unlock a free trial with limited subscriber-only exclusive articles, news alerts and newsletters.

Good link thanks, let me book mark it if I ever need to waste someone's time.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Nice cop-out pretending you cannot read the headline.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

You seem to be struggling a bit, so let me help you out: the title does nothing to address the point that euromaida or whatever is not reputable.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Damn can you quote the title to prove you read it? You seem to be struggling with that.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You didnt think that was worth doing when you brought it up, so why would I. You sure put in the effort, 1-line man.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Take the L and leave no need to dig deeper.

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Ignore IndustryStandard, they're an idiot.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Well sure, but where's the fun in that? Eh eh

Thanks for the concern brother.

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

That's fair lmao

[-] parody@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago

Thx for the superior one

Those media bias folks hate all sources so whichever you link to someone else is gonna hate on (for good reason perhaps!)—but 2 is better than 1 :)

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Violated their air space byotch….

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