Competent ones, I think they do.

Possible explanations:

• yet another time, someone had set money aside for personal use, consequently the bunkers had doors made of plywood or roofing tin :)

• arrival of drones was timed to match the loading / unloading of an ammunition train (that's when even competent militaries have to bring their stuff out)

In their infinite wisdom they apparently stored a bunch of ammunitions out in the open.

Assuming I'm looking at the right thing on google maps, it does seem to be a lot of earthen bunkers with berms separating them. There are also quite a few free standing buildings scattered around.

I looked at Hawthorne Army Depot (US) to compare, and that one is a lot less dense, but it's absolutely gigantic.

It could hold that much, but according to Ukraine it was 105000 tons that exploded. Huge success though.

That's like ten small nukes.

They may not have enough manpower to guard a more distributed site, especially if they’re afraid of internal groups seizing some of it.

But you can save money by putting all of them in one place

I guess we don't have an accurate source on what percentage of munitions his was.

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...

Chatgpt thoughts.. With some spot checking on the math seems right.. Here’s the context of 250,000 tonnes of munitions from the Russian side:

Russia fires 10,000 to 60,000 artillery shells per day, depending on the front.

A typical 152mm shell weighs around 40–43 kg.

That means Russia can burn through 1,800+ tonnes per day in peak operations.

Russian production in 2023 was estimated at 2 million+ shells per year.

Russia also draws from Soviet-era stockpiles and imports from North Korea and Iran.

Russian doctrine favors volume over precision. Their artillery-centric strategy relies on overwhelming force rather than accuracy.

250,000 tonnes equates to roughly 6 million shells.

For Russia, that’s only about 3–5 months of usage at current intensity.

They may have been launched from within Russia.

Russians are a lost cause. 3 years and Putin is still unopposed and every single ruzki is silent doing nothing. Putin might as well eat babies for breakfast and no one would have the balls to do anything about it so sense is completely lost here.

Russian culture is beyond redemption and I say this with a heavy heart as a Russian language speaker. So incredibly disappointed.

It's hard to find reliable data about that. The last good information is from 2022 and says that Russia has stored around 1 million tons of ammunition. That would mean Ukraine just wiped out 26% of everything Russia had.

However, since it is very likely that Russia has produced a lot more since the war began, it's hard to tell how much they actually lost today.

The only other number I could find was one that says that each day Russia uses around 26000 rounds of ammunition (artillery).

And since I'm a lazy fuck that is already lying in bed and I only have my smartphone here, I'll let AI do the estimates and calculations.

Under the premise that most things in that depot was artillery ammo, and we roughly know the weight of a round and as said how much they use per day we can estimate they burn through 1218 tons of ammunition per day.

That would mean Ukraine just destroyed around 220 days of ammunition.

But as said, that's just a wild guess based on some very vague numbers that I don't have double checked now.